“We are going to tell the Americans who have chosen to side with tyrants, those Americans who fire researchers for exercising scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty!” Raphaël Glucksmann said. “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently, you despise it.”

The Trump administration will not entertain a French politician’s request to return the Statue of Liberty to France.

White House press secretary Karoline Leaviitt reminded a French politician who wants the Statue of Liberty back that the U.S. saved him from Nazi Germany.