'You have to get them out': Trump blames immigration for France riots and revives decade-old warning to Macron
Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, whose government's foreign ministry hit back at a White House social-media post contrasting riot footage with early 20th-century Paris imagery, calling its nostalgia "misleading.Clashes between protesters and riot police on a Paris street on 24 October, as Trump told Fox News Digital he had raised France's unrest directly with US Ambassador Charles Kushner this week.
Macron has dismissed Trump's claims that mass immigration is driving France's worst rioting in years as "completely false" and "stupid," while the White House posted before-and-after footage of Paris on X asking Americans "is this the future you want?" France's foreign ministry fired back, citing plummeting infant mortality and rising life expectancy as evidence nostalgia was "misleading."
Trump told Fox News that he warned Macron a decade ago France would "lose its country" and discussed the crisis this week with US Ambassador Charles Kushner.
More than 2,000 people were arrested in a single weekend, with curfews imposed in some areas after protests that began over school funding spread into nationwide unrest.
The riots are reshaping France's 2027 presidential race — centrist frontrunner Édouard Philippe has lost roughly two percentage points in polls, leaving Marine Le Pen on course to face Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the final round.
