US ambassador to France banned from meeting French government

The internet is screaming after U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner got banned from meeting French officials, reportedly for skipping a summons over the embassy’s hot take on a far‑right activist’s killing. Context: activist Quentin Deranque was beaten to death in a clash with alleged hard‑left activists, a tragedy dubbed by some as France’s “Charlie Kirk moment.” The U.S. Embassy and State Department’s counterterror unit posted on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) that “violent radical leftism” is rising — and Paris was not amused. It’s Kushner’s second no‑show, after an earlier summons over his comments on anti‑Semitism, and the French Foreign Ministry basically put him on the “no meetings” list.

Cue comment chaos. One camp is betting on a “persona non grata speedrun” — the diplomatic term for getting kicked out — while others drag Kushner’s past legal troubles, asking why a “disbarred” and “convicted” businessman is handling delicate French politics. Big debates erupted over whether the U.S. should weigh in on France’s domestic tensions versus France defending its sovereignty. The memes? “Ambassador Ghost Protocol,” “Left Paris on Read,” and “Do Not Disturb: Élysée Edition.” A doom‑spiral crowd wonders if this is what a failed state looks like, while pragmatists point to a recent Iceland incident as proof ambassadors can just apologize and move on. Drama level: très spicy.