White House issues wild response over demands to hand back Statue of Liberty

At the feet of the Statue of Liberty, an inscription reads: ‘Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’

Earlier this week, a lawmaker suggested it’s time the US gives the famous Green Lady back to France, 140 years after it arrived on the shores of New York as a gift. But the White House has slammed the notion from MEP Raphaël Glucksmann.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a reporter who asked if Trump would return the statue: ‘Absolutely not.’