France's president calls for 'return to peace'
The French President Emmanuel Macron has called for "a return to peace" while speaking to reporters during a trip to South Korea.
“We all need stability, calm, a return to peace. This isn’t a show," Macron told the media.
“There is too much talk … and it’s all over the place," he added.
Macron didn't mention U.S. President Donald Trump by name in his comments but his latest comments are part of a recent trend as European leaders have increasingly spoken out against Trump's policies.
“You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day”, Macron said.
At a private event on Wednesday, Trump made fun of Macron's marriage and made reference to a video from last year in which Brigitte Macron appeared to push her husband in the face aboard the French president's plane.
“I called up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly. [He is] still recovering from the right to the jaw," Trump said Wednesday.
Reacting to those comments, Macron responded that they were “neither elegant nor up to standard” and did not “merit a response."
-ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge





