Hollande Says Trump Excesses in U.S. Elections Make Him Sick

  • French President made comments over drinks with journalists
  • Trump has said ‘France is no longer France’ and slammed Merkel

Francois Hollande.

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French President Francois Hollande expressed extreme revulsion at Donald Trump’s “excesses” in the U.S. presidential campaign and warned against the authoritarian tone adopted by the Republican nominee and billionaire reality-television celebrity.

“In the U.S., one of the world’s great democracies, maybe the greatest democracy, where democracy was born, before the French one, we see some excesses that are sickening,” Hollande said in Paris during the annual meeting with the presidential press.