Why aren’t Parisians protesting Trump?

PARIS — During the G-20 summit in Hamburg last week, Donald Trump certainly drew out the crowds.

What began as a theatrical anti-capitalist protest at the meeting of the world’s largest economies quickly devolved into violence, with thousands of angry, impassioned demonstrators torching cars, smashing store windows and blocking off roads.
Not so in the City of Light, where people seem to have greeted Trump with Gallic sighs and shrugs.
The American president remains deeply unpopular in France: according to one poll, only 14 percent of the French population holds him in high regard. But
Trump’s arrival for France’s national holiday ultimately sparked little in the way of civil unrest or even mass demonstrations.
The Parisians, it seems, have other things to do.
Yes, there were a few pockets of anti-Trump fervor before the Bastille Day military parade, slated for Friday morning.
The symbolic Place de la République, for instance, the center of the candlelight vigil for the Charlie Hebdo massacre, was briefly converted into a so-called “No Trump Zone,” where several protesters fashioned and displayed piñatas in the shape of the American president.

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