According to The Hill, Trump made the comment in a post published on Truth Social on Tuesday. In the message, the U.S. newspaper reports, he wrote that the situation in France was linked to “out-of-control mass migration” and that Islam wanted to take control of what he described as once a great country.
The wording rejects the idea that the demonstrations are primarily about schools. The Hill reports that Trump wrote: “It’s not about the schools, it’s about Islam wanting to take control of a once great country.”
Available reports describe the context as one of student or school protests in France. The sources agree that Trump identified Islam and migration as an explanation for the unrest, but this remains his political attribution.
Clarín reports that student protests in several French cities led to clashes and that political figures traded accusations over responsibility for the violence.
The available information does not, however, independently establish that Islam or mass migration are the causes of the protests. The materials provided also do not identify the cities involved or clarify the overall origins of the mobilization.
Nor do they indicate the number of demonstrators, any injuries or arrests, or the extent of the material damage. On the basis of the available sources, these omissions make it impossible to assess the scale of the reported clashes.
Trump’s comment thus shifts the debate over the protests from the issue of schools to migration and religious identity, without offering independent verification of a causal link between these phenomena and the unrest in France.