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Trump taunts Macron after thousands of protesters violently clash with police in Paris; almost 1,000 arrested

PARIS - President Trump taunted French President Emmanuel Macron as France was burning in the wake of violent protests across the country on Saturday where an army of Yellow Vests demanded the president’s head.

“Very sad day & night in Paris. Maybe it’s time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes?” Trump tweeted after tens of thousands of people across France went to the streets to protest Macron’s government.

“The U.S. was way ahead of the curve on that and the only major country where emissions went down last year!” he added.

The latest data suggests that the U.S. was leading the way in cutting its CO2 emissions, though the United Kingdom and Japan, among the developed countries, also cut their emissions.

“The Paris Agreement isn't working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France,” Trump tweeted during the protests earlier today, saying the French don’t want to pay to protect the environment.

In Paris, some 8,000 heavily armed French police deployed tear gas and stun grenades against up to 5,000 protesters, with agitators clashing with the police.

Christophe Castaner, the interior minister, later said 135 people were injured in the protests, including 17 police officers. He said "exceptional" security measures allowed nearly police to put nearly 1,000 people in custody.

Casataner estimated there were 10,000 yellow vest protesters in Paris on Saturday, among some 125,000 protesters around the country.

Water cannons were used near Arc de Triomphe, which is safeguarded this weekend after protesters defaced it during the previous weekends.

Some protesters were seen throwing rocks and glass bottles at police officers, sparking a continued flow of tear gas to contain the crowd.

The Yellow Vests were calling for Macron’s resignation after a series of unpopular decisions, including the now-abandoned gas tax and cutting the taxes on the rich, and the ever-increasing living costs, while the economy continues to struggle.

“We are not here to destroy Paris, we are here to tell Macron we are fed up," said one protester before the clashes with the police began.

Protesters were also fed up with Macron’s arrogance, pointing out that since the protests began over four weeks ago, he hasn’t made enough efforts to understand the anger of the people.

Macron seemingly has gone missing amid the protest chaos in the country. He swept into power in 2017, having emerged out of obscurity less than a year earlier. Espousing his own brand of centrism, he has presented himself on the world stage as a spokesman for multilateralism and internationalism against a nationalist wave moving through Europe.

But while he has regularly been seen on world stages, including the United Nations and the U.S. Congress, his absence has been conspicuous this week, choosing to keep away from the limelight as his government attempts to deal with protesters' concerns.

As the protests continued in Paris and the police began using tear gas more actively, some protesters, wearing all black, stormed a phone seller and began looting.

But the Yellow Vests, a popular movement that has no leaders or clearly-defined political affiliations, confronted the looters and told them to stop, fearing that the image of widespread destruction and looting will be used against the movement.

One individual used mace spray, though it's unclear if it was used on a looter. At least one looter was also pinned down on the floor and kicked for breaching the store.

At least one of the business buildings was also breached, with agitators breaking the wooden walls aimed at protecting the business and smashing windows. They later used the wooden parts of the wall against the police.

Many protesters also slammed the French media for portraying the protests as led by violent agitators and for siding with Macron's government.

"We are not black bloc [black clad anarchists], we are ordinary people voicing our anger," said a protester who did not want to be identified.

Around 4 p.m. local time, thousands of protesters began dispersing from the main area, giving more space for the troublemakers to clash with the police. The agitators were seen throwing rocks and throwing back tear gas, forcing the riot police to send reinforcements to the area, while in other parts in Paris similar protests were ongoing.

As the remaining protesters began moving away from the central protest area, they smashed windows and burned cars along their way. Riot police equipped with police batons tried to push away the protesters.

The Yellow Vest movement has inspired people in the Netherlands and Belgium, where protesters hit the streets on Saturday in Amsterdam and Brussels respectively, objecting to excessive taxation.

The protests were less violent than in France, though hundreds were arrested in Brussels. The so-called EU capital was also forced to use water cannons against protesters.

The U.S. Embassy requested that Americans in the French capital “keep a low profile and avoid crowds.”

Shops and tourist destinations, including the Eiffel Tower, were closed and soccer matches were canceled as authorities looked to maintain order.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/french-yel...police-in-paris

Socialism and Globalism anyone?
Venezuela 2?

Yup, I heard it on the radio a few minutes ago that protesters were rallying against raises in taxes and were ready to remove Macron.

"We will no longer surrender this Country or its People to the false song of Globalism.
The Nation State remains the true foundation for happiness and harmony. I am skeptical of international unions that tie us up and bring America down. Under my administration we will never enter America into any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs."

President of the United States of America
Donald Trump

Sounds like America during the Vietnam war. Wait, that won't work for you. lmao

Just terrible!

Maybe we should send Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to advise him!

Well you sure can't send Trump!

Funny to see how Cons are supporting a leftist protest.

Why are cons so bad at creating insults?

Obamaoism doesn’t roll off the tongue smoothly. Clear cut sign of somebody trying way too hard.

Funny you call it leftist when it is actually the Middle Class that is protesting.

The new progressive movement has been a turn in culture to have elites and peasants that follow them. Nice to see the French stand up against the elitist in power in France and say they are no peasants. Maybe just maybe this will be like the French Revolution 2. Remove the Elitist from power.

-Brexit in England.
-Trump's election in America.
-Merkel's demise in Germany.
-And now France.
-Salvini of Italy said his government’s tough approach towards immigration and in negotiations with the EU had achieved more than its predecessors had done in six years.

“The happiness of a people comes first,” Salvini proclaimed at the rally, drawing rousing cheers. Salvini asked rally attendees if they would “swear, yes or no, to liberate the peoples from this Europe”.

“Yes!” came the resounding reply from the crowd.

Globalism declines as We the People are taking our Countries back from the Elitists,
Step by Step by Step!

So they increased gas tax to give businesses and the rich tax cuts... Sounds very Trumpian to me.

Then a woman started a petition on 'change.org' that kicked this off. Protesting the cost of living and disproportionate taxation of the working class... Sounds very liberal to me.

Vambo, 40, Day, and other Trumpians including Fox State Media all supporting a leftist protest! lmao

Just because Trump is too stupid to realize that he did the same crap here, he thinks it's over the Paris Agreement and climate change! So all his minions jump in and take up the liberal cause! You just can't make this crap up! lmao


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_movement

The yellow vests are not leftists. They are protesting the liberal government. These are rural people from the country side. Not the big city liberals that march with kitty cats on their heads here in the states.

You think there are no libs in the country? Come see me sometime, lol.

This is a liberal protest. Stop lying to yourself. Marcon is not liberal enough for them...

Macron is like Obama and Hilary. A neoliberal shrill.

This right here. But you won't change the Trump Stooges mind - with limited knowledge on any subject he is an expert on all subjects!

LOL cracks me up how Facists pose as conservatives.

You Libs just see Fascists everywhere. Here a Fascist, there a fascist, everywhere a fascist.

Translation. “Pay no attention to the facists behind the curtain.”

Or another translation - I don't know what the [censored] I am talking about so lets just post another asinine meaningless piece of drivel.

Wow. 'F e c k ' which is an Irish slang word in common usage and not considered profanity is banned?

We have that same problem here. Maybe we should do the same thing? Unless you're not smart enough to see that it's the wealthy who are the elite.

They wouldn't recognize a Fascist if they saw one.
Fascists tend to tell you what you can and can not say.
Fascists tend to Ban songs and books they find politically incorrect.
Fascists tend to punch you in the mouth if you wear a politically incorrect hat or T on the streets.
Fascists tend to try to make you lose your job by complaining to your superiors when you speak incorrectly.
Fascists tend to stalk you and hound you at restaurants and other public places.

You mean a fascist would run over a crowd of people with a car that opposed his beliefs? Or send mail bombs to his political opponents? Or kill a bunch of Jews where they worship to use fear as a weapon to try to silence people?

Yeah, we recognize it......

I will spell this slow so you can understand but I think what 40 is trying to say is you and other progressives have become what you were suppose to despise.

Well I'm not a progressive, so there's that. I support the second amendment, I support only legal immigration and don't care for a lot of progressive ideas.

I also don't support an idiot boob as our president. I know you can't comprehend this, but not everyone who doesn't see everything your way is some left wing progressive.

And in case you missed it, I spelled out the actions of a fascist.

But you supported the weak apologizing Obama as President. I would much rather have a tough guy who could care less about someones feelings than a weak President like Obama.

Well you don't have a tough guy. You have a loud mouth that blames everyone else for everything. I can't wait for the list of things he's "actually done" that shows he's tough. Hell, two years into his presidency he hasn't even had the guts to go to Afghanistan to visit the troops.

You do realize that you have to do more than just yell and scream to be tough, right?

The most bad ass people I've ever met didn't yell, scream and call other people names. They knew they were tough and didn't waste their time trying to convince everyone else. I've met those kind of people too. Nothing tough about them.

Macron is a centrist.

He also supports the illiterate progressive Ocasio, but he says he is not a progressive, SMFH,

Riley calling other people illiterate? Duty calling people idiots... What world did I enter?

You think individual 1 is tough? Lmfaoooooooooooo

Centrist in France would be something closer to AOC, yes. It also means their right is closer to Hillary Clinton not Mitch McConnell.

That's the thing. They have no clue what politics is in Europe. Over there it's a different thing all together in what's considered to be liberal and conservative or what a moderate even looks like. They wish to compare it to the U.S. and it's not even close.

Dawg gets it.

Yeah - coz Obama was a facist and that's why Pit is a facist too .... OMG - the more you write the worse it gets.

I did not call Obama a fascist I called him a weak apologizing President.