Luckily for the country of France, voters were prepared for the signs of a disastrous election season. After all, they had the United States to use as an example.

Despite some very familiar patterns, such as the opponent of a far-right candidate’s emails being hacked and fake news discrediting the more centrist candidate, French voters did not fall victims to the same old tactics and voted for Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen.

Donald Trump did his best to support the nationalist Marine Le Pen without appearing to endorse her, sending out vague tweets about the French presidential elections in April.

Another terrorist attack in Paris. The people of France will not take much more of this. Will have a big effect on presidential election! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2017

When French voters rejected the female version of Trump and voted instead for Macron, Trump was forced to eat crow and tweet support of their choice.

Congratulations to Emmanuel Macron on his big win today as the next President of France. I look very much forward to working with him! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 7, 2017

Twitter did not allow Trump to miss the very real indicators that an election like the United States saw in 2016 is unlikely to happen again and that France’s rejection of Le Pen was also a rejection of Trump.

@realDonaldTrump Congratulations to France for NOT choosing the nationalist racist fascist aligned with white supremacy to run their country. SMART!! — Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) May 7, 2017

@realDonaldTrump Hopefully Macron doesn’t tweet a bunch of nonsense & spend 4 days a week goofing off at one of his Macron branded golf courses. ????? — david nuzzy nussbaum (@theNuzzy) May 7, 2017

@realDonaldTrump Don’t act like you weren’t pulling for the Russian stooge. — Impeach Donald Trump (@Impeach_D_Trump) May 7, 2017

@realDonaldTrump And I fixed your tweet to be kind and honest pic.twitter.com/asiFG0qLaM — Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) May 7, 2017

@realDonaldTrump France made it very clear today that they despise you and people like you. — Fyrefest Truther (@JustinCaffier) May 7, 2017

@realDonaldTrump The people have rejected racist fascist filth. Your days are numbered. Don’t cry too much. pic.twitter.com/pMiuRt9p1b — The Socialist Party (@OfficialSPGB) May 7, 2017

It seems the nationalist message is no longer as popular as it once was. Perhaps there’s hope in 2020 after all, if Trump makes it that far.

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