The Amazon Scam

Emmanuel Macron may not technically be a celebrity, but he tweets like one.

Prior to the G-7 summit, the French president declared on Twitter, “The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire.” He added that “our house is burning,” and called the fires an “international crisis.”

Macron’s tweet was deeply ill-informed, but indistinguishable from the misleading rants of sundry actors and singers.

At least Diddy and Leonardo DiCaprio don’t host multilateral meetings of Western heads of state. Macron does. He...