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French President Emmanuel Macron, who has criticized Trump's "America First" foreign policy, appeared to be referencing the U.S. president as he used his speech to decry excessive "nationalism" at the root of the First World War and succeeding conflicts.

"Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism," Macron told a gathering of world leaders that Russian President Vladimir Putin to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Trump.

"Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism by saying, 'our interest first, who cares about the others?'"

Hosted an event to mark the centennial of the armistice that ended World War I, Macron told fellow leaders they have a "huge responsibility" to defeat modern forces that threaten a "legacy of peace" from the two world wars of the past century.

"I know there are old demons coming back to the surface," the French president said. "They are ready to wreak chaos and death."

Macron did not refer specifically to Trump, who occasionally frowned during the speech.

Trump did not respond to Macron publicly. Sunday at a World War I-era cemetery, Trump praised the French leader for hosting the event he called "very beautiful" and "well done."

In defending "America First," Trump has often said that the U.S. During a meeting with Macron on Saturday, Trump said: "We want to help Europe, but it has to be fair."

Before the ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe, the bells at Notre Dame and other cathedrals in Paris and across the continent rang at the exact time the armistice took effect: the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, one hundred years ago.

Macron and other leaders marched up the Champs-Élysées towards the event site.

Trump arrived separately, though not without incident: A bad woman ran toward the presidential motorcade, but was quickly caught by police. She appeared to have the words "fake peacemakers" written on her body.

Other anti-Trump demonstrators were arrested throughout the day.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Trump went to the event "due to security protocols."

Holding umbrellas, the president and first lady Melania Trump greeted Macron and other guests, including Russia's Vladimir Putin.

The Russian president gave Trump a thumbs up and patted him on the upper arm.

During the ceremony, a military band played "La Marseillaise"; A choir of veterans later sang the French national anthem a capella. Yo-Yo Ma, seated near the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the bow, performed cello solos. The French air force staged a flyover.

Other World War I commemorations, from Australia and New Zealand to England and India. But with Trump and more than 60 other world leaders in attendance, the Paris event took place amid heavy security.

On Saturday night, siren-blaring police vehicle began lining the streets around the Arc de Triomphe, commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to celebrate his military victories and finished more than a decade after his death in exile.

Domestic politics also occupied Trump's mind.

Just twenty minutes before the program, Trump tweeted one complaint attributing the California wildfires to poor supervision of forest lands. "With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California. Get Smart!" he said.

For the American president, the program at the Arc de Triomphe began a day of commemorations before he boarded the Air Force to Washington, D.C.

Trump traveled to a World War I.

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Trump has been under attack for canceling a Saturday trip to another cemetery. The White House cited rainy weather, saying it would have created problems for the choppers that would have ferried the president.

"Even if the helicopters could not fly, he could've driven," said Democratic Senate leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "He must be just a little rain."

Except for tweets about the issues in California and election recounts in Florida, Trump has kept a relatively low profile during its weekend in Paris.

Erdogan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after Erdogan said he had provided the United States and other countries with audio tapes of the last month of the murder of Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi .

"I can confirm they are in constant contact with Khashoggi," Sanders said.

A century ago, many in the United States and Europe recoiled from the mbad destruction of the First World War, the horrors of trench warfare and gas attacks. The war wiped out monarchies and forged new countries in Europe and the Middle East, but it did not end international rivalries that led to the war.

Germany, angry over war reparations imposed by rivals and eager for revenge, eventually turned to Adolf Hitler. World War II began in 1939.

Macron said the global community must work together to prevent future conflicts.

"The message, if we want to live up to the sacrifice of those soldiers who said 'never again!', Is to never yield to our weakest instincts, nor to efforts to divide us," Macron told a group of youngsters during a Saturday visit to the Compiegne Forest.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel also attended the event at Compiegne, the site where Germany surrendered to France and allies after the First World War, and where France surrendered to Hitler's Germany at the start of the Second World War.

Many leaders have warned that the world is repeating the mistakes of the world: rising nationalism, leading to economic and political competition that can all too often lead to conflict.

"A century on, we are going to see the world again," Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO. "We must keep in mind the price we paid to build peace and enjoy the freedoms we do today."

Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said Macron: "We're seeing a nationalistic, anti-democratic leaders, they are abandoning multi-literalism."

Trump "certainly speaks like that," she said. "'America First.'"

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