Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
During President Trump’s infamous 2018 visit to Paris, in which his planned trip to a French cemetery for fallen soldiers was canceled, he strolled around the lavish ambassador’s residence in Paris and took a fancy to a number of pieces of artwork, including a bust of Benjamin Franklin and some Greek mythical figurines, Bloomberg reports.
So he ordered them removed from the residence and packed into Air Force One and brought to the White House.
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