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PHOTO FILE: French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after a meeting at the Elysee Palace on the eve of the Armistice commemoration ceremony, one hundred years after the end of the First World War Paris, November 10, 2018. REUTERS / Vincent Kessler / Photo File
PARIS (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump, who attacked his French counterpart on Tuesday in a series of tweets, should have shown "common decency" as the country was in mourning on the anniversary. deadly attacks in Paris, said a spokesman for the French government.
In five messages sent on the same day by France to mark the anniversary of the 2015 attacks that claimed the lives of 130 people, Trump lashed out at America's main ally after its nearly defeat against Germany during the two world wars, its wine industry and the popularity ratings of President Emmanuel Macron.
Asked Wednesday on the Twitter publications of the US leader, Benjamin Griveaux, spokesman for the French government, was critical.
"Yesterday, it was November 13, we were committing the murder of 130 people," Griveaux said. "So I'll answer in English:" common decency would have been appropriate. "
Trump posted the tweets after his return to Washington from a weekend in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, during which the strained relations between the American president and his European allies were at l & # 39; honor.
On Tuesday, he rejected Macron's warnings against the threat of nationalism, delivered Sunday in a moving ceremony attended by many world leaders.
Trump, who promoted an "America First" policy, pointed to Macron's recent comments on Europe's need to protect itself, tweeting: "It was Germany in the two world wars – how did that- it worked for France? They were beginning to learn German in Paris before the arrival of the United States. Pay for NATO or not! "
Report by Michel Rose; Edited by John Irish and Marie-Louise Gumuchian
