French President Francois Hollande slammed the recent remarks of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Francois Hollande, the president of France, blasted Republican nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling his recent attacks on Khizr and Ghazala Khan “sickening.”
“His excesses make you want to retch, even in the United States, especially when — as was Donald Trump’s case — he speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier,” Hollande told journalists in Paris, according to the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Speaking to the global importance of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Hollande stated that: “Democracy is also at stake, as we see more and more people tempted by authoritarianism. Should the American people choose Trump, there will be consequences because a U.S. election is a global election.”
NBC News reports that Hollande also expressed concerned about the impact a Trump presidency might have on French politics:
“The U.S. campaign provides themes that will then come into the French campaign,” Hollande said, before adding that what was previously an “unthinkable” Trump administration has now become “foreseeable.”
On politicians in general, Hollande said “they should be respected when they are respectable.”
Earlier on Tuesday, President Obama denounced Trump, calling him “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve as president during the White House press conference held with visiting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Lsien Loong.
Obama also questioned Republicans for continuing to stand by their nominee. “This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he’s making,” the US president said, adding: “There has to be a point at which you say, ‘This is not somebody I can support for president of the United States, even if he purports to be a member of my party.'”
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