While over the past week Trump has hardly needed outside help to generate a spectacular dose of media scandals, overnight an unexpected attack came from none other than French socialist president 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.
Coming from the man who defined the term “shampoo socialism” when it was revealed that his personal hairdresser costs the French people 11,000 per month, Hollande knows excesses when he sees them. In fact, Hollande is not just anybody. Recall that ‘everyone needs their hair done, no?’ Stephane Le Foll, the government spokesman, said after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace Wednesday in Paris. ‘I can understand people’s questions, I can understand their judgments. He’s not just anybody, that’s all.’
Cited by Bloomberg, Hollande continued his bashing of Trump, adding that ‘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,’
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 3, 2016.
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