Trump, whose 2016 presidential run has been cited as a blueprint for Zemmour’s current bid for the Élysée Palace, urged the populist Zemmour to “stand his ground, hang in there and keep his spirits up” in a 40-minute phone conversation late on Monday, Zemmour’s spokesman Guillaume Peltier told the France 2 broadcaster. “Tenacity and stamina will pay off,” Trump said.
France24 A prolific writer and advocate of the “Great Replacement” theory, according to which liberal elites are plotting to replace French nationals of White stock with immigrants, Zemmour has dominated the early stages of the presidential campaign in the raucous, aggressive and iconoclastic manner of Trump – albeit with the veneer of cultured sophistication generally expected of a French presidential candidate.
Fashioning his pitch on Trump’s successful White House run, Zemmour has positioned himself as an outsider to traditional parties and the French political establishment. A string of mishaps saw him dip in the polls at the start of the year but the political novice has since bounced back, notably poaching high-profile defectors from both the mainstream conservatives and Marine Le Pen’s far-right supporters.
Zemmour, 63, is currently fourth in opinion polls but closing in on both Le Pen and conservative candidate Valérie Pécresse. The trio are competing for an increasingly porous right-wing electorate, blurring the line between mainstream conservatism and the far right. With left-wing candidates in the doldrums, whoever wins this three-way race on the right looks set to take on incumbent Emmanuel Macron in the April 24 run-off.
Zemmour’s team said the call with Trump had been “long and friendly”, covering migration, security and economic issues in both countries. “They’re both pushing for the same thing – Donald Trump wants the US to remain the US, and Eric Zemmour wants France to remain France,” the campaign said in a statement.
Like the former US president, Zemmour has cast himself as a truth-teller unconstrained by political correctness. His background as a talk-show pundit also mirrors Trump’s former TV stardom. While Le Figaro, France’s traditional newspaper of the right, lent him credibility with a weekly column, it was CNews, a Fox News-style television channel, that gave him a prime-time national audience – and a platform from which to lambast French elites and voice vitriolic comments about Muslims and immigrants.
Zemmour, who has three convictions for alleged anti-Islam hate speech, recently called for the European Union to build a wall along “all its borders” to keep out immigrants, apparently inspired by Trump’s project, never realised, to build a wall on the US border with Mexico. The cover of his latest book, “France has not said its last word” – featuring Zemmour, arms crossed, in front of the French flag – was also modelled on Trump’s 2015 release, “Great Again”.
The phone call with Trump, whose support Le Pen has courted in the past, will be seen as a further blow to the head of the National Rally party (formerly the National Front). It comes just days after the party’s only senator, Stéphane Ravier, defected to Zemmour’s camp. In her 2017 presidential campaign, Le Pen sought to play up her proximity to Trump when she travelled to the Manhattan business headquarters of the former US president, only to slip out discreetly when nobody received her.
Zemmour, is an Algerian-born French Jew, a best-selling author, journalist, lecturer and the most famous conservative intellectual in France. Zemmour has faced endless persecution by the French government for his views on Islam, immigration, feminism, homosexuality, and the preservation of western civilization.
For years, Zemmour has warned of the dangers that migrant no-go-zones pose to the France and their citizens.
In March, Zemmour’s exposed “migrants in France’s no-go suburbs dangerous and violent refusal to cooperate with voluntarily measures to control the spread of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in France“, as reported by RAIR.
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Bleeps says
Yes, Zemour needs to bring civil war soon ! It’s 50% population balance. No time like today time and my profecy fullfils!!! Check Jesus Luciffer http://www.divinetruth.com
I would like to know this man’s position on Masonry/jesuits/catholics people and Soros influence connections. Will he wipe them all these mentioned out like he will do with these?!
BareNakedIslam says
He doesn’t have to be perfect on every issue, just the most important ones. You expect too much.
Az gal says
Yay! All the Trumpster leaders need a club.
zasde35 says
Not realy a smart thing to do , he breaks up the France right and so open the way for a re election of macron.
Steve S says
I guess great minds think alike. LOL. Even though Trump has been out of office for over a year, he STILL has an effect. That’s the TRUMP EFFECT. LOL. I have a feeling that even if Trump were to die (which I heartily hope DOESN’T happen for a long while) that he would have an effect even from the GRAVE. And people will talk about Trump long after he is gone. The Trump effect lives on! LOL. 🙂 There’s just no getting rid of Trump!
Classy Infidel says
Oh yes, Marine Le Pen seated in Trump Tower, she waited and waited. That kind of damaged her. What a stupid move that was!
Incredible President Trump. With one phone call, he just crushed all Zemmour’s opponents except for Macron. I will be watching the upcoming election night with great trepidation.
BareNakedIslam says
CI. I don’t recall the Trump Tower incident. Please refresh my memory.
Cleavis Nowell says
Zemmour has made an excellent case of illegal islamists being the primary vectors of Covid,AIDS and Terrorism. Soros funded Nation destroying vectors must be removed from Western countries !
BLR says
good test for right wing candidates to see if they can unify the fickle voters to show a solid front to Macron , one for all and all for one otherwise they go down against the socialist divided like before
Linda Rivera says
Many thanks and much gratitude to America’s TRUE president, outstanding President Trump, for his ethical support of Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban and France’s Eric Zemmour!
VOTE ERIC ZEMMOUR FOR PRESIDENT!
Strong, courageous FREEDOM FIGHTER Eric will go down in the history books as one of the greatest men of all time!
Eric is a light in this dark world. A man of ethics and great goodness who places his life on the line every hour of every day seeking to save France and all Europe.
God forever bless and protect this wonderful hero!