Meet Emmanuel Macron – The Consummate Banker Puppet, Bizarre Elitist Creation

The last thing I ever wanted to do was write about France’s likely next president, Emmanuel Macron, but here we are. This post was inspired by a very telling Financial Times article sent to me by a reader, but we’ll get to that in a bit.

Most Americans paying attention to global affairs have some conception of his opponent, nationalist firebrand Marine Le Pen, but Macron is likely to be very much a black box. I hope today’s post changes that.

Any knowledge you may have about Macron probably comes from mainstream news outlets, which have been uniformly gushing about the socialist-centrist Rothschild protege.

As an example, just take a look at the following title from a January article published at Foreign Policy.

You’d think this guy was the second coming or something. Naturally, the gushing continues beyond the title. Here are the first few paragraphs.

In some of his many previous lives, 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron has been a philosophy student, an investment banker, and a minister of economy. It is not surprising, then, in his current life as an independent candidate for the French presidency, he does not always speak like other candidates. And it’s not only the substance of his language that stands out but also, sometimes, his choice of language. Last week, in a speech at Berlin’s Humboldt University, Macron spoke in impeccable English on the imperative of giving Europe a chance.

And of giving the future a chance: Macron’s speech offered a powerful and convincing case that he is the last great French hope for a European future based on a common market and a common morality, a single currency and a singular commitment to the continent’s core values.

Though his immediate audience was Humboldt’s faculty and students, Macron was in fact addressing a far wider audience. He was seeking to mobilize French as well as German youths, and — in a reference to the program that allows EU citizens to study in other member states — the non-Erasmus as well as the Erasmus generations. Based on the audience’s response to his speech, and his surging poll numbers in France, Macron — despite not having the support of an established party, or perhaps becausehe doesn’t — is no longer the dark horse but instead the white knight for a growing number of French voters. However, what this particular knight promises, beyond verve and vitality, is not yet clear.

This author certainly isn’t holding back on the Macron infatuation. Within the first three paragraphs alone he refers to the man as “the last great French hope” and a “white knight.” Amazing.

But that’s not the most telling part of the above excerpts. I find it particularly remarkable that the author positions this manufactured candidate as some sort of outsider. Sure, he may not have the backing of an established political party, but those who do back him have far more power than that.

I came to this conclusion based on an extremely enlightening article published in the FT titled, Emmanuel Macron’s Rothschild Years Make Him an Easy Election Target. Based on the title, you’d think that the man merely had a normal, brief stint at the bank, but you’d be wrong. As you read, it becomes clear that he was groomed from day one by a Rothschild partner and ended up on a fast track like I’ve never seen before. But first, let’s examine the first two paragraphs of the article, which betrays the man’s intentions.

When Emmanuel Macron told friends in 2008 he was joining Rothschild, the prestigious investment bank, the then 30-year-old civil servant was warned it could scupper a future career in politics.

“You’re conscious that banking is not any kind of job? And Rothschild not any kind of bank?” said one friend to the man who, nine years later, would become frontrunner in France’s presidential election.

Contrary to media myths about a “white knight” who came out of nowhere to save France, this character has had his eye on high political office for at least a decade. Indeed, it appears Macron has been groomed by powerful financiers for a very long time. As the FT also notes:

The graduate of ENA, the elite school that breeds France’s future leaders, came recommended by powerful alumni of the institution, including François Henrot, a longtime Rothschild partner. But young bankers were not so impressed.

“He was the guy who would constantly say ‘thank you’,” a former colleague said. “He didn’t know what ebitda [earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation] was. He didn’t try to hide it. And instead of looking it up in a corporate finance book, he asked around, which was disarming.”

Yet it wasn’t just a Rothschild sponsor who took the young Macron under his wing…

What Mr Macron lacked in technical knowledge and jargon at first, he made up for with contacts in government, says Sophie Javary, head of BNP Paribas’ corporate finance in Europe, who was asked by Mr Henrot to coach Mr Macron in the first year.

This is straight up bizarre. It appears Macron was so important to banking interests the had to form a consortium of firms to all pitch in to help him out. Yet it gets stranger still.

On the Atos deal, Mr Macron “had a fairly junior role at the time — he would be asked to redo the financial models on Excel, the basics,” recalled an adviser. But a few days after the deal was announced, Mr Macron was made a partner. A few months later, he stunned colleagues and rivals by winning a role in Nestlé’s purchase of Pfizer’s infant food operations.

As someone who spent ten years on Wall Street, I can tell you with certainty that you don’t go from updating excel models at a junior level to partner overnight. Someone extraordinarily powerful was pulling all sorts of strings for this guy. There seems to be little doubt about this.

Further hints that Macron is a total manufactured elitist creation can be seen with the following.

At the bank, Mr Macron mastered the art of networking and navigated around the numerous conflicts of interest that arise in close-knit Parisian business circles, making good use of his connections as an Inspecteur des Finances — an elite corps of the very highest-ranking graduates from ENA.

In 2010, he advised, for free, the staff of Le Monde when the newspaper was put up for sale. Journalists at the daily started doubting his loyalty when they happened upon him in conversation with Mr Minc, who was representing a bidding consortium that the staff opposed. They did not know that it was Mr Minc, a fellow Inspecteur des Finances, who had helped the young Mr Macron secure his interview at Rothschild.

A media executive who was part of the same consortium recalled: “It wasn’t clear who Emmanuel worked for. He was around, trading intelligence, friends with everyone. It was smart, because he got to know everybody in the media world.”

Indeed, who does he work for? I’m sure the French people would like to know.

Meanwhile, Macron is like a conspiracy website’s wet dream. Not only was he groomed by Rothschild bankers, he was also a Bilderberg meeting attendee in 2014. Of course.

Incredibly enough, Macron’s personal life is just as bizarre. Wikipedia notes:

Raised in a non-religious family, he was baptized a Roman Catholic at his own request at age 12.

Impressive that the man figured out religion at such a young age, but what’s even more bizarre is what he did three years later. At 15, shortly after discovering Jesus, he decided to seduce his high school teacher who was 24 years older and married with three children. I’m not in the habit of quoting Slate, but an article on this topic published there was excellent. We learn:

At 39, Emmanuel Macron would be France’s youngest-ever president. His wife, Brigitte Trogneux, just turned 64. The two met when Macron was 15 years old; Trogneux was his high-school drama teacher. After putting off the young Macron’s advances for a while, Trogneux eventually divorced her husband—the father of her three children—and moved to Paris to be with Macron, who’d left his hometown to finish high school in the capital city. They married more than a decade after meeting, in 2007.

Media accounts of their once-illicit relationship have offered it as evidence of Macron’s daring personality and willingness to break with tradition, qualities that helped make him a presidential frontrunner without a political party or any experience in elected office. “Their love affair was the kind of audacious undertaking that has defined Mr. Macron’s life and career,” the New York Timesreports. “His sheer drive, his focus and his willingness to leapfrog in a country where most success is built step by step make him more like the entrepreneurs he admires than a typical politician.” The Associated Press writes that, “from his teenage romance with a teacher to his recent ambition to become president, Emmanuel Macron often is described as unconventional and tenacious.”

This is a strange way to frame a romantic relationship between a teenager and his 40-year-old teacher. If Macron were a young woman who’d seduced her male high-school teacher away from his wife and family, her determination and ultimate success would not be proffered as signs of her leadership skills, the beginning of a life as an effective politician. She would be cast as an opportunistic Jezebel with daddy issues who slept her way into every political role she got. If Macron were an ex-teacher who’d left his wife to be with a teenage student, we’d rightly cast doubt on his maturity and morals. Depending on the details of the case, I might think he should have lost his teaching job and wonder which combination of possible gross reasons caused him to reject women his own age.

Swap Macron and Trogneux’s gender again, and the story of a goal-oriented romancer would be spun as a conventional tale of an unhinged, desperate homewrecker. Conquering resistance through patient pursuit would, to most observers, seem like obsessed-stalker behavior coming from a young girl and sexual-predator behavior coming from an older man. Macron’s disregard of Trogneux’s initial rejection—and his dogged fixation on making her his girlfriend despite her marriage and his age—don’t ring such alarm bells because we’re far more used to seeing older men with way-younger women.

What’s most notable about the above is how corporate media such as The New York Times celebrates Macron’s less than savory behavior in his pursuit of Trogneux. It may not be fake news, but it certainly looks a lot like pro-Macron propaganda.

Finally, I’d like to end with the following tweet, which I think summarizes the situation.

The bottom line is Macron is a total fake. Indeed, he’s almost embarrassingly phony, but will it matter? My feeling is that he will probably win the May 7th runoff, but I don’t think the spread will be anywhere near as wide as everyone is predicting. I continue to think that it won’t be France, but more likely Italy, which will put the final nail in the EU coffin.

As always, we shall see.

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19 thoughts on “Meet Emmanuel Macron – The Consummate Banker Puppet, Bizarre Elitist Creation”

  1. Macron’s youthful philandering reminds me of what occurs in the plot of a very successful Québec movie, “Les Grands chaleurs” (“Heat Wave”) in which a teenage boy, played by François Arnaud (at his most tenderly youthful beauteous) seduces, after many attempts and being so frequently rebuffed, a 52 year old woman, who at last capitulates to his sexual advances. I almost wonder, in the French-speaking film world, if this might be life (Macron) imitating art!

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  2. The sexual predator stuff aside, Macron’s background reminds me so much of a very recent POTUS’s. Totally manufactured, obviously taken in hand by very powerful people, and presented to the public as some sort of savior by a consensus of the media.

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    • You’re very perceptive. In fact Macron’s grooming goes back 10-15 years (serious stuff). His whole campaign staff worked for Obama. He’s in Hillary’s emails on Wikileaks. The hole is so deep it makes you really re-think what’s going on here.

  3. so he falls in luv w/ his older teacher, pursues her and marries her? and they’re still married? insinuation, innuendo, fact less and tactless. if unconventional and ambitious are sins, call me sinner

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    • You have a good handle on stuff generally, but it was a bit of a jar to read the emphasis on his sexual life. Culture shock for US and UK perhaps, but, in France sex scandals are hardly scandalous. Politicians have mistresses, it is almost expected, adds strength to one’s elbow so to speak. The rest of his story is interesting though. A Cameron type. Also, what’s the fascination with the EU failing. Would you suggest the US is going to collapse under the weight of debt of failing state finances and leaky borders? The EU has taken some recent hits and still stands and will clearly be around long enough to see off the UK and will have time to pull some of its many frayed edges together. 440 million Europeans have a lot of resources to pool and there are enough open minded folks ready to do what it takes to maintain a unique international collaboration.

    • Andy, just because they do it, it makes it OK? I can’t get behind that sentiment. In any case, it’s not so much the age difference as the breaking up the family that bothers people. He is praised in the media for not following conventions, for his “romantic” pursuit of his lover, his ambition and drive manifest at such a young age, etc. etc. whereas what I see is a person who even at a young age was self-centered and heartless enough to break up a marriage and a family. The article author, Michael, rightly points out – not a sex scandal – but how the media elite chooses to frame a topic when it has an agenda. The agenda here is most certainly to elect Macron. If they didn’t want him elected, they would have portrayed him via the exact same facts more in line with my perception above.

  4. MIKE WELL DONE>

    it’s like living in a crazy house where no one but you publicly states the obvious. i cannot wait until the obvious observation like these are deemed fake news. they already have been and are being downranked by every msm filter on facebook cnn and amagooglnbc.

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  5. This guy is a total joke. See this short video. The man who is laughing at the end is François Asselineau, the only serious candidate promoting the exit of France from the EU. (FREXIT)

    Here’s the english translation of Macron’s speech (meaningless words) : “I am very much in favor of building new models of governance. These new models can be set up at the initiative of the actors themselves and will allow greater flexibility, ….I read you what was written to me….., in the governing bodies and in the modalities of internal organizations, …..initially I did’nt understand this sentence….. Basically it means that the relationship I want to set up with you is rather a relationship of clarity so that we can act effectively!”

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  6. The Obama-like meteoric rise of Emmanuel Macron, was sponsored & cultivated by leading Jewish figure of the French ‘Deep State’, the George Soros confederate & Zionist Jacques Attali, who is said to be France’s ongoing ‘shadow Président’ behind the scenes. Jacques Attali “created the link between financial capital & the elite of the ruling Socialist Party … He is exceptional in his ability to skillfully wrap predatory plans of bankers in beautiful leftist slogans.”

    Macron was brought into Rothschild & Co Banque by his friend François Enron, close friend & partner of David de Rothschild, the Israel-boosting Jewish Rothschilds being the world’s wealthiest family. Maron’s political party ‘En Marche’ is financed by huge French bank BNP Paribas, long-time public vehicle of the Rothschilds

    “As minister of economy, Macron facilitated the sale of big French companies to American corporations,” said French Republican party lawmaker Nicolas Dhuicq, adding, “There is a very wealthy gay lobby behind him.” Macron is often said to be gay himself, with his age 64 wife as noted above (Macron is age 39) as a cover. Amongst the ‘rich, gay lobby’ backing Macron, is Pierre Bergé, business partner & long-time gay lover of openly homosexual famous designer (Mr) Yves Saint Laurent

    “The French branch of the Rothschild family, which controls assets in the tens of billions of euros, quite naturally seeks to have its man at the Élysée Palace.” Emmanuel Macron was indeed one of 7 French attendees at Bilderberg 2014, as noted above, where globalist oligarchs are said to sometimes make their decisions about how to control various countries

    https://southfront.org/emmanuel-macron-rothschilds-choice-for-president-of-france/
    https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201702041050340451-macron-us-agent-dhuicq/
    http://aanirfan.blogspot.be/2017/04/emmanuel-macron.html

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    • I started my research with Jacques Attali as well. Indeed, that’s how he got to the presidential palace quite recently, but it’s what proceeded this phase and the arms and legs of it that is overwhelming. Check out the French-American Foundation of which he was a chosen one. Laurence Haim, his campaign spokesperson, Liegey Muller Pons to know whose running the shots at present.
      The past is darker.

  7. Macron Booed, Jeered By Factory Workers In His Hometown After Le Pen “Ambush”

    Earlier on Wednesday, Le Pen had made a surprise visit to the Whirlpool plant on the edge of Amiens while election front-runner Macron was meeting with union leaders from the plant in the center of town

    . Le Pen told reporters on the picket line that Macron’s decision to meet the workers’ representatives behind closed doors showed his “contempt” for their plight, forcing her rival to change his plans and engage with the demonstrators live on television.

    During the hastily arranged visit, some in the crowd shouted “President Marine!” and booed as the 39-year-old former banker stood outside the appliance factory in the rustbelt city of Amiens.

    “I am here to speak to you,” said the pro-business former economy minister, ringed by a horde of cameramen and journalists.

    The Whirlpool factory has become a focus of the free-trade debate at the heart of the French election campaign because 280 jobs will be cut next year when the company shifts production to Poland.

    As Bloomberg describes the scene, “with the black smoke of burning tires whipped up by a cold wind and cries of “Marine! President!” punctuating his remarks, Macron tried to mount a defense of the European trade regime in the factory parking lot as angry demonstrators crowded round.”

    “When she tells you the solution is to turn back globalization, she’s lying,” Macron told the workers, his comments picked by the microphones of more than 100 reporters witnessing the clash. “We cannot outlaw firing. We must fight to find a buyer.”

    Judging by the response, the local workers did not find Macron very convincing.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-26/macron-booed-jeered-factory-workers-his-hometown-after-le-pen-ambush?

    the elites call him Ma-cronY

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  8. @rich

    That is in essence what many of the european left see as the true tragedy of the french elections. Now the french have to decice between the banker and the fascist, piss and shit.

    As in Britain, USA or Germany, the center parties in France have merged into a single neoliberal party with two right wings. Its obvious that overall in western countries this “extreme centre” as Tariq Ali (the “british Noam Chomsky”) calls it, is loosing ground. Macron only managed to beat the left candidate Melenchon, because he gave the illusion of representing a great coalitiion between both of the center parties.

    Even though left candidate Melenchon, just, as his international counterparts Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn or Oscar Lafontain, is just a representative of what used to be the norm for social democrats 50 Years ago, he was demonized as a candidate of an extreme left.

    Again, just as in the USA, the progressive left alternative failed to enter a presidential race by a narrow margin because corporate media networks virtually banned them from the screens.

    This trend will only continue in the future and with dire consequences. Of course, the real monster is Marine Le Pen, but many voters that are delusioned with the center will vote for the only alternative they see.

    I am a german and an anticapitlist and antifascist, and I really understand anyone frustrated with the choices this system leaves us.
    But, as a german, I feel very much obligated to say, that from our experience the extreme right will bring ruin to everyone, not only the arbitrary minority they currently single out to brutalize, deport of kill.

    Therefore it pains me more than anything else to see voters cheer for Le Pen. Macron might be their Slave-Master, but Le Pen will be their butcher.

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  9. He will be a disaster and the Fifth Republic is dead. Hollande was a disaster and Macron was one of his Ministers who will need the Socialist Party to govern. French President needs parliamentary majority and Macron won’t have one. Even as Minister his legislation had to be issued through Presidential Decree like Bruening in Weimar Republic.

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