PARIS (Reuters) - Paris responded with a diplomatic tone Wednesday to a series of violent attacks in which President Donald Trump, France's president and president Emmanuel Macaron, attacked.
The French government spokesman Benjamin Grevo said Trump should have shown some "decency and respect" on the day of mourning, in which France commemorates the third anniversary of the November 13 attacks in Paris, in which 130 people were killed, according to Reuters.
He was responding to reporters' questions about a series of tweets published by the president in his Twitter account Tuesday, on his return from France, where he lived with dozens of leaders on the centennial of the end of the First World War.
"Yesterday, November 13, we were commemorating the deaths of 130 of our citizens, so I will respond in English: it was appropriate (for Trump) to show some decency," the French spokesman said.
In his tweets, Trump ridiculed Macaron's proposal to create a European army, referring to Paris's tariff on American wine, which hampers its foothold in French markets. He said there was a significant reduction in Macron's popularity among the French.
Trump began the war of anti-Macron attacks on arrival in French territory on Friday, when McCron's proposal on the European military was considered "very humiliating."
"Perhaps Europe must first pay its contribution to NATO, which is largely funded by the United States," he said.
