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Global Geopolitical Series: President Trump triggers diplomatic feud trying to give bigger purpose to yellow vest protesters

President Trump has triggered a diplomatic feud with France when he tweeted in support of French ‘yellow vests’ protesters, who have been protesting in France’s capital Paris over the last four weekends that made Paris look like a war zone with thousands of cops armed with rubber bullets, tear gas, and armored vehicles countering thousands and thousands of protesters coming to Paris from all over France to show their disregard for President Macron and his authoritarian style of governance.

In his tweet, “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? The U.S. was way ahead of the curve on that and the only major country where emissions went down last year!” President Trump seems to be trying to give protesters a bigger purpose than the original cause which was the end of the fuel tax hike. Though the initial protest began with a march against the controversial fuel tax hike, after four weekends of massive protests, the protesters are now eyeing bigger prize, such as reversing back some of the austerity policies of the past. Some protesters are even calling for president Macron to resin and parliament to take actions against him. President Trump has long been a critic of the Paris Climate Accord and formally announced the United States withdrawal from the pact, which takes about four years to come into effect.

His tweet received a harsh rebuke from Paris, with the French foreign minister asking the President not to interfere in France’s internal matters, “leave our nation be…..We do not take domestic American politics into account and we want that to be reciprocated".

The feud reveals the level soured relationship between President Trump and many European leaders, such as Mr. Macron, who is expected to address the nation on Monday or later in the week.

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