'You have to get them out': Trump warns Macron that France will be lost over immigration as riots sweep the country
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.
Trump told Fox News Digital after a midterm rally in Texas that France's unrest is "an immigration problem," warning Macron directly: "You're going to end up losing your country if you don't do something." More than 2,000 people were arrested in a single weekend as curfews took hold in parts of France, where protests that began in late September over school funding have spiralled into widespread rioting, looting and arson.
State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott declared Trump "spot on" about France, saying the president has warned of mass migration dangers for years.
Macron, speaking in the Gulf, hit back, saying claims France was "invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists" were "completely false" — and when asked if he meant Trump, replied "among others."
The White House posted a 'before and after' video on X mocking France; Paris's foreign ministry replied: 'Nostalgia can be misleading.'
