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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley Europe correspondent

‘You have to be serious’: Macron criticises Trump’s mixed messages about Nato and Iran

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul.
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said of Donald Trump on Thursday: ‘There is too much talk … and it’s all over the place.’ Photograph: Jintak Han/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Emmanuel Macron has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s inconsistent and often contradictory pronouncements on the Iran war and Nato, saying if “you want to be serious” it was better not to come out with something different every day.

“There is too much talk … and it’s all over the place,” the French president said on Thursday during a state visit to South Korea. “We all need stability, calm, a return to peace – this isn’t a show!”

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