France is on fire, and President Trump's border warning is being proven right in real time—while the establishment press scrambles to change the subject to anything else.
Riots have torn through French cities, with mobs destroying homes and businesses, attacking police and first responders, and even turning makeshift flamethrowers on bystanders, the Gateway Pundit reported. The 143-year-old town hall in Limoges—survivor of two world wars—burned to the ground at the hands of what the outlet described as radical Islamo-Marxist rioters. Trump didn't mince words: "France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country. Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!"
This is the crisis the America First movement was built to prevent. Open borders aren't a humanitarian project—they're a nation-killing experiment, and Europe is the live feed. The same globalist class that opened Europe's gates is working overtime to do the same here.
Meanwhile, the establishment press has a different priority: blaming Trump for your grocery bill. The Syracuse.com editorial board points to inflation running at 3.7% annualized—up from 2.4% before Trump took office—and pins it on two "unforced errors": the war in Iran and Trump's tariff regime. They're not entirely wrong on the mechanism. Oil prices have surged from roughly $70 to $100 per barrel since the Iran conflict began, and gas in New York jumped from $3.35 to $4.30 per gallon—a 28% increase. Moody's Analytics estimates the war has cost each American household $2,000 in higher costs. The New York Federal Reserve found that Trump's tariffs drove consumer prices 2.9% higher across 67 product categories.
But here's what the editorial buries: both the war and the tariff scheme are constitutional failures, not just policy disagreements. The war in Iran still lacks congressional approval, as the Constitution demands. The tariffs have been ruled unconstitutional by courts. The framers gave Congress—not the president—authority over both war and trade policy for a reason. That's not a Trump problem or a Biden problem. That's a bipartisan failure of the entire political class to follow the law of the land.
So here's the real picture: France burns because its leaders refused to defend their borders. Washington burns through the Constitution—and your wallet—to fund overseas adventures and trade wars executed by executive fiat. Trump is right about the border. He's wrong to bypass Congress on war and tariffs. The founders gave one man the power to command the military, not the power to start wars. They gave Congress the power to regulate trade, not the president.
The question isn't whether America First works. France is answering that in flames. The question is whether anyone in Washington will follow the whole Constitution—or just the parts that suit them in the moment.
