French President Emmanuel Macron said France and the United States must respect each other, in a response to a flurry of critical tweets by Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
Macron said in an interview Wednesday with French television TF1 from the Charles-de-Gaulle aircraft carrier off the coast of southern France that \u201cthe French don\u2019t expect from me to answer to tweets\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump lit into Macron Tuesday over his suggestion for a European defence force, French tariffs on US wine and even Macron\u2019s approval ratings.<\/p>\n
Asked whether Trump\u2019s four tweets were unpleasant and inelegant, the French leader answered: \u201cyou summed up everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he thinks that Trump \u201cis doing American politics and I let him do American politics\u201d. \u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t do diplomacy or politics through tweets and comments,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Earlier Wednesday, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux suggested that the US president lacked \u201ccommon decency\u201d by launching his broadside on a day when France was mourning victims of the November 2015 attacks in Paris.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were commemorating the assassination of 130 of our compatriots three years ago in Paris and Saint-Denis, and so I will reply in English: \u2018Common decency\u2019 would have been appropriate,\u201d Griveaux said.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s tweets underscored tensions between the once-chummy leaders and displayed the US president\u2019s irritation over criticism of how he acted in France.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiplomacy is not made through tweets but through bilateral discussions,\u201d Macron said during Wednesday\u2019s weekly Cabinet meeting in comments reported by Griveaux.<\/p>\n
The French and the American leaders met on Saturday in Paris before ceremonies commemorating a century since the armistice of World War I.<\/p>\n
Since Macron\u2019s election last year and their first white-knuckle handshake at a NATO summit, they have had an up-and-down relationship. Macron called Trump \u201cmy good friend\u201d in front of reporters this weekend and their meeting was described as cordial by the French presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
French President Emmanuel Macron said France and the United States must respect each other, in a response to a flurry of critical tweets by Donald Trump. Macron said in an interview Wednesday with French television TF1 from the Charles-de-Gaulle aircraft carrier off the coast of southern France that \u201cthe French don\u2019t expect from me to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47276,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47274\/revisions\/47276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}