Macron Condemns Trump’s Handling of Iran Conflict

“Macron is the echo of Europe’s exasperation with Trump as the fighting rages on,” headlines The New York Times. On Thursday, April 2, during a state visit to South Korea, the French president expressed his disapproval of Donald Trump’s handling of the war in Iran, criticizing him for talking without careful consideration according to the New York publication. The day before, the American president had spoken at length about the conflict, threatening to “bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.”

“When you want to be taken seriously, you don’t contradict yourself every day from what you said the day before,” Emmanuel Macron declared. “One should not speak every day. And this is not a show. We are talking about peace, war, the lives of women and men,” he added.

The French president also “strongly defended” NATO, accusing Donald Trump of “undermining” the transatlantic alliance by casting doubt on a possible US withdrawal, as reported by The Guardian. “I think that organizations, alliances like NATO, they are valuable because of what is not said, that is, the trust behind it,” stated Emmanuel Macron.

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