Africans are 'black like this table': what Trump said to Macron according to Bruno Le Maire

In his book _Le temps d’une décision_, Bruno Le Maire recounts a meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump during the G7 in Biarritz in 2019. Trump allegedly told Macron that Africans are 'black like this table', a remark that Le Maire interprets as a strategy of destabilization. The book, published on April 23, 2026, covers twenty-five years of power and includes portraits of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.