President-elect Donald Trump has accepted an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to attend the reopening of Paris’s cathedral, Notre Dame, on Saturday. Trump will also meet Macron at the Elysee Palace, likely meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shortly thereafter.
Devastated in a 2019 fire, the Catholic cathedral has seen its major repairs recently finished. Notre Dame was originally completed 764 years ago, at a time when Native American tribes were only beginning to develop formative cultures in North America. Notre Dame most certainly is a place to behold. Describing the cathedral during a visit in 1785, Thomas Jefferson assessed, “It bids defiance to description.”
Trump is right to honor this heritage and the French nation responsible for it. As America’s oldest ally, France was indispensable to the creation of the United States. France…
