Tired And Poor

 France called.

They want the Statue of Liberty back. 1885

Specifically, Raphael Glucksmann, a member of the center-left Place Publique party was speaking to a convention:  "We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty.' We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So, it will be just fine here at home."

Certainly there were times in the not-so-distant past that the twice-impeached "president" and former game show host might have looked out the window of the tower that has his spray-painted gold initial out front in case he ever got lost wandering the city and marveled at one of the singularly most iconic landmarks in the United States. Do you wonder if he ever bothered to get close enough to read the plaque at the base of Lady Liberty? There is a poem, The New Colossus, that reads in part:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Since the National Park Service is in charge of Ellis Island and Liberty Islands it seems likely that no one will be visiting those places anytime soon. Elongated Mush will probably appropriate them both for a combination car showroom and launch pad for errant Space-X rockets. In which case Manhattan residents had better keep their wits about them, since both of those Mush-backed products tend to explode at inconvenient intervals. 

So if a cargo ship pulls up into into the Upper New York Bay, accompanied by the sound of heavy equipment, have no fear. It's just our allies coming back for the gift they gave us back in 1885. A hundred forty years is a pretty good run, but if we don't want it, maybe the French can still give it to Egypt like they originally wanted. 

Au Revoir, Liberty.