President Trump CPAC Speech Transcript, February 24, 2017 At the same time, we fully understand that national security begins with border security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike America if they cannot get into our country. (Applause.) And by the way, take a look at what’s happening in Europe, folks. . . Take a look at what’s happened in France. Take a look at Nice and Paris. I have a friend — he’s a very, very substantial guy. He loves the City of Lights. He loves Paris. For years, every year, during the summer, he would go to Paris — it was automatic — with his wife and his family. I hadn’t seen him in a while. And I said, Jim, let me ask you a question: How’s Paris doing? “Paris? I don’t go there anymore. Paris is no longer Paris.” That was four years — four, five years — hasn’t gone there. He wouldn’t miss it for anything. Now he doesn’t even think in terms of going there. Take a look at what’s happening to our world, folks, and we have to be smart. We have to be smart. We can’t let it happen to us. (Applause.)

President Trump made some disparaging comments about France in his CPAC speech on Friday while discussing the general topic of jihad terror and public safety, which upset President Francois Hollande and other French officials.French leaders are concerned about tourism falling even more , and bad news about terror attacks seems to blow up every few months, in particular the November 13 2015 co-ordinated attacks on several Paris locations where 130 people were killed. In response, the city has become an armed camp, with soldiers guarding popular tourist spots like the Eiffel Tower — where the city announced earlier this month that an “esthetic perimeter” would be built around the structure to protect it from France’s Muslim diversity.

It was reported last spring that half of France’s army was deployed on the streets of major cities.

But the French are smiling bravely as if having thousands of soldiers on the streets is a totally ordinary way to live —although it is sadly becoming the new normal. On February 3, a soldier shot an assailant near the Louvre museum who was carrying a machete. Over Christmas, 91,000 soldiers and police were mobilized to protect churches and holiday festivities from unfriendly residents.

The last months have seen a number of public events cancelled because of security concerns. France is being strangled from within by diverse Muslim immigration, but Hollande doesn’t want anyone to notice. Someone should tell him that denial won’t help.