Trump borrows from far right to blame unrest in France on immigration
President ignores school conditions and cost of living and says he warned Macron ‘the whole world was coming in’
TL;DR
- Donald Trump and JD Vance have blamed recent riots in France on immigration, a tactic similar to the US playbook and far-right rhetoric.
- The protests in France actually began over issues such as crumbling schools, teacher shortages, and the high cost of living, including rising fuel prices.
- Trump urged France to "Close your Borders and take control," and claimed he warned Macron that "the whole world was coming in" and Paris would "be a Muslim city very soon."
- Vance stated that "Western liberals imported the third world into France," ignoring fundamental questions about assimilation.
- This rhetoric mirrors that of France's far-right National Rally and is being leveraged by Republican politicians in the US to criticize Democrats.
- The article notes that similar protests over economic issues and underfunded schools in other European countries have not drawn the same attention from Washington.