French President Emmanuel Macron used his legal case against Candace Owens to snark at Donald Trump’s record on media access.

The French president, 47, told Paris Match he had moved to sue Owens to ‘defend his honour’ over a “nonsense” gender conspiracy about his 72-year-old wife, Brigitte.

In the interview, also reported by The Telegraph, Macron said the lawsuit over Owens’ claims was about truth, not censorship—and in doing so, he made a not-so-subtle dig at the U.S. president.

“It is not freedom of speech to want to prevent the truth from being restored,” he said.

“Those who talk about this supposed freedom of speech are the people who ban journalists from the Oval Office. I don’t accept that.”

President Trump’s second term has seen him reduce traditional media access while elev

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