Donald Trump suggested he could change his position on the Paris climate change deal during a gushing news conference with his French counterpart.

Appearing alongside Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Mr Trump said "something could happen" with regards the 2015 accord, which he pulled the US out of after becoming President.

"We'll see what happens," added the former tycoon, who is in France for the annual Bastille Day celebrations.

Mr Trump said he and Mr Macron enjoyed a "very good relationship".

Image: Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron smile at a joint news conference

"The friendship between our two nations - and ourselves, I might add - is unbreakable," he said.


"Our occasional disagreements are nothing compared with the immortal bonds of culture, destiny and liberty that unite us... so strongly unite us."

Mr Trump's previous criticism of how France had dealt with the terror threat was put to him by a reporter.

He said: "It's gonna be just fine because you have a great President

"You have a great leader now, you have a great President, tough President, he's not gonna be easy on people who are breaking the laws and show this tremendous violence.

"I have a feeling that you're going to have a very, very peaceful and beautiful Paris... and I'm coming back."

Trump: Most people would've taken Russia meeting

He then turned to Mr Macron and said: "You'd better do a good job, please - otherwise you're gonna make me look very bad."

The French President said a scheduled dinner at the Eiffel Tower with Mr Trump would be a "great pleasure" and that the two nations had been allies "forever".

But it was not long into the question and answer session that the growing controversy surrounding Donald Trump Jr was raised.

The US President claimed "most people would have taken that meeting", referring to Donald Jr's meeting with a Russian lawyer during the election campaign.

Trump in Paris for Bastille day

"As far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man," Mr Trump said.

"He took a meeting with a Russian lawyer. Not a government lawyer, but a Russian lawyer. It was a short meeting.

"From a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting."

The purported purpose behind taking the meeting was to gather damaging information on Hillary Clinton, Trump's opponent in the November election.