U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on November 10, 2018 | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Macron to Trump: ‘I do not do policy or diplomacy by tweets’ French president responds to US counterpart’s Twitter broadsides.

French President Emmanuel Macron responded to Donald Trump's social media attacks on him by saying “I do not do policy or diplomacy by tweets.”

In an interview with French TV network TF1 aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, Macron said of the France-U.S. relationship: “At each important moment in our history we have been allies, and between allies there is respect and I do not want to hear the rest.”

Macron was responding to a series of attacks against him by the U.S. president on Tuesday. Following Macron's call for a "true European army," Trump wrote on Twitter: "Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two — How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not!"

More Trump tweets followed. He took a potshot at tariffs on French wine, saying: "France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S. The problem is that France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change!"

The EU — and not France — decides common external tariffs for products such as wine for every country in the bloc.

Trump then added: "The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate of almost 10%. He was just trying to get onto another subject. By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France, very proud people-and rightfully so!"

He followed this with "MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN!"

At the time, the office of the French presidency said the tweets were "made for Americans."

In the TF1 interview, Macron said his call for a European defense force was not a rejection of NATO or France’s alliance with the United States, but a guarantor of France’s “sovereignty.”

“Allies are not vassals,” Macron said.

On Wednesday, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux was asked about Trump's tweets. He said: “Yesterday was November 13, we were commemorating the murder of 130 of our people,” according to Reuters. “So I’ll reply in English: ‘Common decency’ would have been appropriate.”