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Trump walks alone as Macron rips nationalism

PARIS - In what appeared a direct rebuke, French President Emmanuel Macron warned President Donald Trump and other leaders Sunday that a dark new tide of nationalism, the label Trump recently embraced for his "America First" movement, ignores the painful lessons of history and threatens a fragile global order.

"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism," Macron said as Trump sat, unsmiling, with more than 100 other world leaders at a commemoration at the Arc de Triomphe of the moment when World War I ended 100 years ago.

"Old demons are coming back to the surface," Macron said, citing the dangerous resurgence of the ethnic and religious hatred that led to

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