United States President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that Paris will soon become a "Muslim city", blaming immigration for the ongoing protests in the French capital. The remarks by the US president were reported by Nepali news outlets on Tuesday, with Nagarik News and Nepal Views both highlighting the statement in their international coverage. The claim ties the name of one of Europe's most prominent capitals to a sweeping prediction about its future, and it places immigration at the centre of the US president's account of the unrest in France.
Trump's 'Muslim city' claim
According to the reports, Trump asserted that Paris, the capital of France, was on course to become a "Muslim city" in the near future. The Nepali coverage presented the statement as the US president's own prediction about the direction in which the city was heading, and it reported the claim using the same formulation: that Paris would "soon" take on this character. The phrasing matters, because it frames the change not as a distant possibility but as something the US president described as imminent. It was also this element of his comments that the outlets chose to emphasize, giving the story its headline character.
The reports did not specify where Trump made the remarks or on what occasion they were delivered. They also did not mention any response from the French government, the city authorities in Paris, or French political figures. As of the reporting published on Tuesday, the claim therefore stood as a statement attributed to the US president, quoted by the Nepali outlets without any accompanying reaction from France.
Immigration blamed for Paris protests
Alongside the claim about the city's future, Trump blamed immigration for the ongoing protests in Paris, France. In the reports published on Tuesday, the two points appeared together as a single argument: the US president linked the unrest in the French capital to migration and presented the situation in the city as the outcome of that process. The protests were described as ongoing at the time his remarks were reported. By making that link explicit, the US president left no separation between his view of the protests and his view of immigration.
The Nepali coverage did not elaborate on the specific demands of the protesters, the scale of the demonstrations, or how the French authorities have responded to the unrest. The focus of the reports remained on Trump's framing of events, quoting his claim about Paris and his insistence that immigration was responsible for what is happening in the city. For readers in Nepal, the reports conveyed the US president's characterization of the protests rather than an independent account of the demonstrations themselves.
The key points established by the reports are as follows:
- Trump made the claim about Paris on Monday.
- He said the French capital would soon become a "Muslim city".
- He blamed immigration for the ongoing protests in Paris, France.
- Nepali news outlets reported the remarks on Tuesday.
Coverage in Nepal
The story reached Nepali readers a day after the remarks were made. Nagarik News carried the item in its international section, while Nepal Views reported the same claim along with the US president's blame on immigration for the Paris protests. Both outlets attributed the "Muslim city" remark directly to Trump and identified him as the president of the United States, making the statement the core of their reporting.
What the reports left open is also notable. They did not include any French reaction to the US president's characterization of their capital, nor did they describe the protests in Paris beyond calling them ongoing. They likewise did not carry any clarification from Trump or his team about the basis for the claim. In the absence of such responses, the "Muslim city" remark stands, as of Tuesday, as the US president's own assertion about a foreign capital and about the causes of the unrest there.
Together, the claim about Paris and the blame placed on immigration formed the substance of Trump's Monday remarks as reported from Nepal on Tuesday. The ongoing protests in the French capital, and any official French response to the US president's words, are the immediate points to watch as the story develops.
