The initial tweet was posted by Charlie Kirk. Mr Kirk is the founder and president of the right-wing nonprofit group, Turning Point USA. Trump retweeted the post after he snubbed the French president by not holding a meeting with him at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last weekend.
In his post, Mr Kirk claimed: “There are riots in socialist France because of radical leftist fuel taxes.”
He added that “Europe is burning” and claimed the demonstrations were a middle-class rebellion against “cultural Marxism”.
He concluded: “‘We want Trump’ being chanted through the streets of Paris.”
Despite the claims made by Mr Kirk, the protests – which were initially styled as a means of combating climate change – are trying to achieve the precise opposite of what he said.
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Opposition political leaders have actually called for increased taxes on the wealthy, while demonstrators have taken to the streets against rising costs, as they’ve seen some of their social support curbed by the government.
Mr Kirk’s tweet apparently relates to online video footage of demonstrators appearing to mock Trump.
The video does not even appear to have been filmed in Paris – or even France – but in London.
The video is, in fact, from anti-Trump demonstrations in the capital earlier this year, as a copy of the clip posted on YouTube reveals.
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Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh also claimed French demonstrators were chanting: “We want Trump.”
But French residents told Newsweek the suggestions were laughable.
The situation in France has been increasingly explosive over the past few weeks, with protestors known as the “gilets jaunes” — or “yellow vests” — setting fire to cars and attacking the Arc de Triomphe as part of their rejection of rising fuel costs and Mr Macron’s general policies.
In more recent days the mass demonstrations have extended to southern cities and reached as far as Toulouse, as the entire nation rails against its leader.