French President Emmanuel Macron was shocked by Europe’s exasperation with Trump as the battles rage on, according to The New York Times. On Thursday, April 2, while on a state visit to South Korea, the French president expressed his disapproval of Donald Trump’s handling of the war in Iran without mincing words, and accused him of talking all over the place, continues the New York headline. The day before, the American head of state had spoken at length about the conflict, threatening to “bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.”
“When you want to be serious, you don’t say the opposite of what you said yesterday every day,” Emmanuel Macron declared. “You shouldn’t speak every day.” “And this is not a spectacle. We are talking about peace, war, the lives of women and men,” he added.
The French president also “vigorously defended” NATO, accusing Donald Trump of “undermining” the transatlantic alliance by casting doubt on a possible U.S. withdrawal, as highlighted by The Guardian. “I think that organizations, alliances such as NATO, they are valuable because of what we do not say, that is, the trust behind it,” Emmanuel Macron stated.
