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Donald Trump failed to show “common decency” when he attacked France’s president on the anniversary of the 2015 Paris terror attacks, a French government spokesman has said.
As France marked the anniversary of the Bataclan attacks in which 130 people were killed, Trump launched a string of angry tweets, blasting the key US ally over its near defeat to Germany in two world wars, its wine industry and President Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings.
When asked on Wednesday about the US leader’s Twitter posts, French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux was critical.
“Yesterday was November 13, we were marking the murder of 130 of our people,” Griveaux said. “So I’ll reply in English: ‘common decency’ would have been appropriate.”
Trump posted the tweets after returning to Washington from a weekend in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of world war one where strained relations between the American president and European allies were on full display.
On Tuesday, he rejected Macron’s warnings against the threat of nationalism, made during an emotional ceremony in the French capital on Sunday attended by scores of world leaders.
Trump, who has promoted an “America First” policy, pointed to Macron’s recent comments about Europe’s need to protect itself, tweeting “it was Germany in World Wars One & Two – How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!”
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