He then brings up Emmanuel Macron's sunglasses yesterday. "I was watching him... what the hell happened," he exclaims in a lighter outburst during a serious moment in world politics. He is now revealing private conversations between himself and Macron on drug prices, and how he coerced Macron into agreeing an increase on French drug prices to avert punitive tariffs on French exports to the US. He boasts it took him 3 minutes per country to get them to agree to up their drug prices so the US can lower theirs. "We're not going to subsidise the world," he says.

Source: Irish Independent January 21, 2026 11:17 UTC