EU/FRANCE/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump wasted no time taking a poke at his French host Friday [11-9-18] as he arrived in Paris for events marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, tweeting as he landed that President Emmanuel Macron had made an ‘insulting’ proposal to build up Europe’s military to counter the U.S., China and Russia. It was a clear sign that the ‘America first’ president was ready to chart his own course yet again as world leaders gathered to remember the coalition that brought an end to the first global war. Trump’s visit comes on the heels of midterm elections in which Americans delivered a split referendum on his presidency, keeping the Senate in his party’s control but ceding the House to opposition Democrats. He planned to meet with Macron on Saturday [11-10-18] for talks on topics expected to include European security, Syria and Iran.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump Opens Armistice Visit to France With Jab at Macron,” The New York Times online, November 9, 2018