French President Emmanuel Macron Says Calls With President Trump And Other World Leaders Is Like Explaining How Sausages Are Made

Reuters: Macron says calls with Trump like sausages: better not know what's inside

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday his phone calls with U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders were just like sausages: better not explain what’s inside.

During a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Macron was asked about a CNN report on Monday saying that a phone call between the French leader and Trump last week had been “terrible”.

Borrowing a famous quote from 19th century Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, Macron summed up his policy of refraining from making off-the-record comments about his conversations with other world leaders.

“As Bismarck used to say, if we explained to people how sausages were made, it’s unlikely they’d keep eating them,” Macron told reporters.

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WNU Editor: I think we all have experienced a few of those phone calls in our lives.