French authorities said the attacker was wounded in the stomach but is conscious and moving. One soldier suffered minor injuries to his scalp, the AP report said. | Getty Trump warns America to 'get smart' on Islamic terror after Louvre attack

A suspected terrorist attack at Paris' famed Louvre Museum offered President Donald Trump another opportunity to warn against such dangers for the U.S.

The Associated Press reported Friday that a man shouting, "Allahu akbar," and brandishing two machetes attacked French soldiers near the entrance of a shopping mall beneath the museum. The soldiers shot the attacker, wounding but not killing him. Officials described the attack to The Associated Press as a suspected terror attack.


French authorities said the attacker was shot in the stomach but is conscious and moving. One soldier suffered minor injuries to his scalp, according to the AP report.

“A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.” Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning.

The president has used attacks similar to the one carried out Friday morning as justification of his “extreme vetting” proposals, which he has said will keep foreign terrorists from entering the U.S. Last week, Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning individuals from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the U.S. Those nations have been designated by the U.S. as posing an elevated risk of terrorism.

Trump’s order also stops indefinitely the flow of refugees from Syria into the U.S.

While the immigration order was applauded by his supporters, the policy’s opponents said that its greatest effect would be to bolster the narrative supported by terrorist groups that the U.S. is at war with all of the Islamic world. Trump’s executive order is likely to be used as a recruiting tool for the Islamic State and other groups, his detractors have said.