EA on India’s News 9: Trump’s “White Nationalist” Exploitation of France’s Unrest

Posted by Scott Lucas | Oct 21, 2026 | 0

Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles in France, June 17, 2026

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EA’s Cormac Smith joined India’s News 9 on Tuesday to call out Donald Trump’s hate-baiting, anti-immigrant exploitation of France’s protests.

Cormac explains how Trump pushed disinformation to push aside the actual cause of the protests — student complaints about funding and organization of French education — and replace it with blame of immigrants, feeding racism and Islamophobia.

Noting the Trump’s camp support of hard-right parties across Europe, including France’s National Rally, Cormac summarizes:

[Vladimir] Putin and Trump are on the same page. They want a weakened, divided Europe.

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView. He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

EA on India’s News 9: Trump’s “White Nationalist” Exploitation of France’s Unrest

Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles in France, June 17, 2026

EA’s Cormac Smith joined India’s News 9 on Tuesday to call out Donald Trump’s hate-baiting, anti-immigrant exploitation of France’s protests.

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Scott Lucas

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