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【Macron publicly criticizes Trump for using French riots to campaign for the midterm elections】
French President Emmanuel Macron publicly criticized Trump and other foreign leaders on Wednesday during a visit to Qatar for using the violent riots that recently occurred in France to attack immigrants and advance their own political agendas. Macron said there was no evidence that foreign forces had intervened and incited the riots in France, but that foreign information manipulation did subsequently occur, leading leaders in multiple countries to make what he called unacceptable and stupid remarks. Macron explicitly stated that Trump was among them. Macron said they had seen some AI-generated images depicting scenes that had never occurred in France. Some people also claimed that France had been invaded by hordes of immigrants and Islamists, which was completely false. Macron also criticized those who, in certain parts of France or across the Atlantic, were using France's situation to campaign for themselves, saying that these people greatly angered him. Trump's Republican Party is only 2 weeks away from the United States midterm elections. Since the French demonstrations escalated into riots last Saturday, Trump has repeatedly cited images of violence, vandalism, and looting in France, attempting to link the events to immigration policy. Trump also warned American voters to look at France and claimed that Paris would soon become a Muslim city. These remarks linked the riots in France to the debate over immigration policy in the United States, but French police have not yet clearly determined that the riots were connected to immigrants or Islamist extremists.