New York | Donald Trump will travel to France on Saturday for the reopening of the historic Notre Dame Cathedral five years after it was ravaged by a fire. It will be his first foreign trip since last month’s election and a symbol of how quickly global leaders are turning the page on the Biden presidency.

Trump announced the trip on his online platform, Truth Social, calling it “an honour” to make public his plans to visit the “magnificent and historic” building. He credited President Emmanuel Macron of France with doing “a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so”.