Trump Urges France to Close Borders over Immigration, Says Country Is ‘Burning’
Trump said immigration has damaged France as nationwide protests injured more than 500 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters, officials said.
- President Donald Trump called on France to close its borders on Sunday, claiming that diversity and immigration had damaged the nation and contributed to its problems.
- These remarks come amid nationwide protests in France over rising living costs and poor school conditions that descended into violence, with clashes between demonstrators and police.
- Authorities arrested at least 1,800 people during the unrest; Interior Minister Laurent Nunez reported more than 500 police officers, gendarmes and firefighters injured, with violent groups setting fires including at the 19th-century City Hall in Limoges.
- French President Emmanuel Macron scheduled an emergency meeting with senior government officials for Sunday to address the crisis before addressing the nation.
- Trump warned that the situation could worsen, suggesting it might be "too late" for the country to effectively respond to the crisis.
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"Close the borders and take control, before it's too late!" the president advised the French to avoid these critical episodes.
"Close your borders and take control, before it's too late!" he said.
TRUMP TELLS MACRON: 'FRANCE IS BURNING' — CLOSE YOUR BORDERS
President Trump urged France to shut its borders and 'take control' as riots swept the country, warning that immigration from 'an entirely different world' had 'shattered' the nation. Macron prepared an emergency address as arrests topped 1,800.
Donald Trump says ‘France is burning’, country ‘shattered’ by immigration
France is reeling from widespread damage during protests the day before that left a historic town hall torched and led to 1,800 arrests, piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron six months before elections to replace him
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, blamed immigration for the disturbances that rocked France on Saturday, urging Paris to harden its reception policy. France is burning! The immigration of people from a completely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, destroyed a country that was once great, wrote the President of the United States in a message on his platform Truth Social. Close the borders and resume control, bef…
US President Donald Trump has joined the chorus of those expressing their opinions on the unrest in France, saying hateful migrants are destroying the once-great country and calling for the immediate closure of the borders.
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