President Donald J. Trump had a simple diagnosis on Monday for the chaos in France: open borders. Taking questions from reporters on the South Lawn before departing for Kansas, the President said the unrest has nothing to do with schools or anything else. “What’s happening in France has to do with immigration — not schools, not anything — it’s immigration,” he said.
Trump said he gave French President Emmanuel Macron that warning a long time ago. “I told President Macron, close up your borders. I told him the first time I met him, which was years ago in my first term, close up your borders. You’re going to have nothing but trouble,” he said. “And they’ve got a lot of trouble.” He was blunt about where France is heading: “Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon, and that wasn’t the deal. That wasn’t the deal.”
The President said France let in people who do not share its love of country. “They don’t love the country, they don’t love their art, they don’t love their buildings, they don’t love their people,” he said. When a reporter raised the weekend violence in Milan, Trump said Italy and France are facing the same thing. “When you look at Italy and France, it has to do with immigration. And I told them all it was going to happen,” he said. “That’s a boiler waiting to explode.”
Patriots know the difference is leadership. “We have closed borders, nobody comes in,” Trump said. “And we’re getting all the people out, all the people that came in illegally. They’re coming out.” Europe, he said, “let people in, they didn’t get them out, and they came in by the millions.”
Trump said he takes no joy in watching an old ally struggle. “It’s a very sad thing to watch,” he said. “It’s going to be hard to get it back, but hopefully France will come back.” In America’s Golden Age, the lesson is clear: secure the border first, and a nation keeps its soul.
