[ Flash ] Ambassador Charles Kushner Shall Be Expelled
How long will the inacceptable behavior of Pres. Trump's envoy to France be tolerated?
An ambassador summoned twice to the Quai d’Orsay who fails to appear is simply not performing the basic duties of his office.
Mr. Charles Kushner can therefore no longer be regarded as a functioning diplomat. He is, at best, a tourist whose visa has long since expired.
Mr. Charles Kushner does not conduct himself as the representative of a great power—particularly in the one major European nation that has never waged war against the United States; it is the conduct of someone who exhibits contempt both for the mission the President of the Unites States of America and the U.S. Congress have entrusted him.
He is insulting the American people and the people of France.
From the Elysée Palace? Crickets. The utter lack of political courage from Emmanuel Macron is a feature, not a bug.
As for Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, the performance is almost comical in its hypocrisy. He demands the resignation of a UN Special Rapporteur over words she never uttered, yet in the very same breath folds like cheap origami when confronting the U.S. Ambassador.
After summoning Kushner twice to the Quai d’Orsay—once in August 2025 over his baseless accusations of French inaction on antisemitism, and again this week over the Trump administration’s inflammatory comments on the killing of far-right activist Quentin Deranque—he simply no-showed both times
Barrot’s grand response? A stern request that Kushner no longer enjoy direct access to French government officials. In other words, the punishment for twice disrespecting official summons is... fewer meetings. How utterly terrifying.
Ambassador Kushner now has even more free time to play tourist in Paris—sipping wine, posing as the sophisticated continental he patently is not, all at American taxpayers’ expense—while his deputy handles the actual diplomacy that France and the United States deserve.
Mr. Kushner is a convicted felon, pardoned by Donald Trump on December 23, 2020. Epstein-like techniques earned him a 24-month federal prison sentence in 2005: illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering via a filmed honey-trap—hiring a prostitute to seduce his cooperating brother-in-law, recording the encounter, then mailing the tape to his own sister.
France has every right—and every obligation—to declare Charles Kushner persona non grata and expel him without further delay. Anything less would confirm that our country can be trampled like a doormat.
Respect, like freedom, isn’t begged for—it’s enforced.