Trump Retweets Claim That Protesters In France Were Shouting ‘We Want Trump’
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President Trump on Tuesday retweeted a claim that protesters in France were shouting, “we want Trump.”

President Trump on Tuesday retweeted a claim that protesters in France were shouting, "we want Trump," reports The Hill. The message shared was posted by Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA and read: "There are riots in socialist France because of radical leftist fuel taxes. Media barely mentioning this. America is booming, Europe is burning. They want to cover up the middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism. 'We want Trump' being chanted through the streets of Paris."
A Vox piece slammed the post, noting: "Nothing in the tweet is even remotely accurate. The only facts in it are that there are protests in France over fuel taxes and that there are, indeed, streets in the city of Paris." Trump had previously been critical of those protests. "The large and violent French protests don't take into account how badly the United States has been treated on Trade by the European Union or on fair and reasonable payments for our GREAT military protection. Both of these topics must be remedied soon," Trump tweeted last month. 
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