Hollande who has yet to announce if he will seek re-election said Trump’s “excesses” were sickening.
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French President Francois Hollande expressed extreme revulsion at Donald Trump’s “excesses” in the US presidential campaign and warned against the authoritarian tone adopted by the Republican nominee and billionaire reality-television celebrity.
Trump’s staggering unpopularity around the world, which Obama alluded to at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last week, has made him an easy target for politicians concerned about the disintegrating global order, the health of the global economy, or the continued viability of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance.
Obama described Trump as “woefully unprepared” and “unfit to serve as president”.
Trump hit back claiming Obama, supported by Hillary Clinton in her time as Secretary of State, had ‘destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi’.
The Socialist French president will face strong competition from far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen if he chooses to run again next year.
“His excesses make you want to retch, even in the United States, especially when – as was Donald Trump’s case – he speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier”, Hollande told journalists in Paris, while warning U.S. voters about the prospect of a Trump presidency.
Just three months before the presidential elections in the United States, Donald Trump has landed himself in hot waters with the Muslim parents of a USA soldier who was killed in the line of duty.
Trump questioned the silence at the event of the dead man’s mother, Ghazala, prompting her to cry in a television interview and her husband to accuse Trump having a “dark soul”.
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“The U.S. campaign provides themes that will then come into the French campaign”, Hollande said, adding that what was once “unthinkable”, a Trump administration, has now entered the realm of “foreseeable”.
