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Donald Trump Says Paris Will Be a Muslim City Very Soon, Blames France Unrest on Immigration
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Trump: Paris will be a Muslim city soon, blaming immigration for France unrest. He urged Macron to close borders, criticizing France's immigration policy.
Trump targets Macron
US President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House that “If Europe doesn’t close its borders and bring the criminals out, like the people that protest, Europe is finished,” as he blamed unrest in France on immigration. Trump added that “Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon,” and he said he had told French President Emmanuel Macron he was “making a big mistake in France.”
Trump’s remarks came as French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu directed authorities to introduce targeted curfews following a weekend of violence, while Macron acknowledged shortcomings in the security response. French authorities imposed restrictions in multiple cities, and Bordeaux Prefect Sophie Brocas announced a week-long night curfew for minors under 18 not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, effective from Tuesday, October 20, until October 26.
Rhetoric and political stakes
Donald Trump framed the French unrest as an election warning for Americans, and he told a Kansas rally crowd that France had been “conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists.”
Trump also used Truth Social to repeat that “CLOSE THE BORDERS, FAST!” while he said he had warned Macron and that “We closed our borders. He didn’t.”
JD Vance linked the unrest to the November 3 midterm elections, writing on X that “Western progressives have imported the third world into France” and “neglected fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility.”
The Guardian said the unrest left a historic town hall torched and led to 1,800 arrests, and it reported that curfews were issued for a number of French cities including parts of Paris.
Europe’s security response
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez offered to resign following criticism of the police response, and Macron declined the resignation while calling for improvements in security planning and intelligence operations. In Bordeaux, Gironde Prefect Sophie Brocas announced a week-long night curfew for minors under 18, with restrictions effective from Tuesday, October 20 between 10 pm and 7 am in areas severely affected by the October 17 looting.
In the same reporting, Trump told reporters outside the White House that Europe must “close its borders, like I’ve been telling them for 10 years,” and he argued that European governments must remove people he described as hostile to their countries. The Times of India reported that Paris police imposed an overnight curfew from 11pm on Monday until 6am on Tuesday in two areas of the capital, including Place de la République and the Les Halles shopping district.