US president has published a series of tweets criticising Emmanuel Macron’s policies and his low approval rating.
Donald Trump should not meddle in French affairs, its foreign minister said on Sunday, after the US president criticised France in tweets following riots in Paris.
Anti-government protesters faced off with riot police in Paris and other French cities on Saturday, hurling stones, torching cars, and vandalising shops and restaurants in a fourth weekend of unrest that has shaken President Emmanuel Macron’s authority.
“The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France,” Trump wrote on his Twitter account.
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told LCI television “leave our nation be”.
“We do not take domestic American politics into account and we want that to be reciprocated,” he said.
Le Drian said images published in the United States with people chanting “We want Trump” were filmed during a Trump visit to London several months ago.
