French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux on Wednesday regretted that U.S. President Donald Trump did not respect France's commemoration day of Paris 2015 deadly attacks, saying he should have shown "common decency."
In a series of tweets he sent shortly after Paris visit, Trump, on Tuesday, mocked Macron for falling approval ratings and criticized his recipe for Europe's defense cooperation and global trade.
"It was Germany in World Wars One and Two - How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not," he tweeted.
In other message, he wrote: "The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26 percent, and an unemployment rate of almost 10 percent. He was just trying to get onto another subject. By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France, very proud people - and rightfully so!"
Griveaux said: "Yesterday was Nov. 13. We were commemorating the murder of 130 of our people. So, I'll reply in English: common decency would have been appropriate."
"I have no other comment to say," he told reporters at a weekly briefing.
