French President Emmanuel Macron | Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images Macron on Trump suggestion to leave EU: ‘You can imagine my response’ The US president offered a better trade deal for France than with the rest of the EU.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he would not comment directly on a report that Donald Trump suggested France leave the EU — but his commitment to Europe made clear what his response would have been.

Back in April, Trump proposed to Macron that France leave the EU, the Washington Post reported, citing two European officials, and said that if Paris left the bloc, it would win a bilateral trade deal superior to what the EU gets as a whole.

The White House did not dispute the officials’ account, but declined to comment, the Post reported.

"Things said behind closed doors should stay behind closed doors. I don't think it's ever good to repeat them," Macron said at the end of a European Council summit in Brussels when asked about the report.

"But I know that the commitments I have made to Europe over a little more than a year now are sufficient to let you imagine my response if such a question had been posed," said Macron, who was elected president in May last year.

Trump has been at war on various fronts with his European allies, trade in particular.

Earlier this week, Trump trashed the EU at a rally in North Dakota.

“We love the countries of the European Union. But the European Union, of course, was set up to take advantage of the United States,” Trump said at the event Wednesday. “And you know what, we can’t let that happen.”