“Pissing off the unvaccinated”: Emmanuel Macron is already relying on small controversial phrases

He had nevertheless assured that he would not be taken there again. On December 16 on TF1, the President of the Republic regretted a number of small sentences pronounced during the first 18 months of his five-year term, by his own confession. “hurtful”. Would he repeat them in the same way today? “Certainly not”, he replied, not formulating a real mea culpa.

“There are words that can hurt and I think that is never good and even unacceptable. Respect is part of political life and so I learned”, he had declared, showing himself however always convinced that it was necessary “shake up the system”. Sentences pronounced barely three weeks ago and which seem very far away compared to those held in The Parisian dated this Wednesday, January 5.

“The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do it, until the end. That’s the strategy”, said the head of state. A statement that did not fail to cause controversy and which is added to an already long list.

It started early, on June 3, 2017 during a trip to a rescue center in Morbihan. “The Kwassa-kwassa fishes little, he brings Comorians, it’s different “, he jokes in reference to the frail boats of Mayotte sometimes used by migrants. On June 29, 2017, during the inauguration of a start-up incubator in the former Halle Freyssinet in Paris, the President of the Republic spreads over the stations. “A station is a place where you meet successful people and people who are nothing”, he says.

Two months later, on August 24, 2017 in front of the French community in Bucharest, he believes that “France is not a reformable country. Many have tried and failed, because the French hate reforms”. In the same vein, visiting Denmark on August 29, 2018, he expressed his admiration for the Danish model of “flexicurity”, and ironically regrets, by contrast, “the Gaul resistant to change!”

On September 8, 2017, a few days away from a mobilization against the reform of the Labor Code, he proclaimed: “I will not give in, neither to lazy people, nor to cynics, nor to extremes”. On October 4, 2017, during a trip to Corrèze, speaking to a local manager and targeting a CGT delegation that was accompanying dismissed employees of the automotive supplier GM&S, he quipped. “Some, instead of screwing things up, better go and see if they can’t get jobs there.”, loose Emmanuel Macron.

In a video published on June 12, 2018 by his services on his Twitter account, he regrets that we put “a crazy dough in the social minima” and “poor people stay poor”. “We must have something that allows people to get by”. On September 15, 2018, Emmanuel Macron suggested to a young unemployed horticulturalist he met during Heritage Days to look for a job in “hotels, cafes and restaurants” Where “building”. A job, “I cross the street, I find you!”, he assures.

On January 15, 2019, the day of the launch of the great debate born of the yellow vests movement, the Head of State declares that he wants “empower” people living in poverty because “there are some who do well” and others “who kidding”. Still around the movement of yellow vests, March 23, 2019 in Nice, a militant septuagenarian of Attac is seriously injured during a police charge to disperse a prohibited demonstration. Two days after the fact, Emmanuel Macron wishes him a “speedy recovery, and perhaps a form of wisdom”. “When you are fragile, when you can be pushed around, you don’t go to places that are defined as forbidden and you don’t put yourself in situations like this”, he believes then in nice morning.

It therefore only took a little less than three weeks to see the good resolution mentioned during the big interview on TF1 know its first sprain.