Macron: 'Nationalism Is a Betrayal of Patriotism'

French President Emmanuel Macron warned against the dangers of nationalism in a speech aimed directly at the rising tide of populism in the United States and Europe.

With President Donald Trump and other world leaders looking on during an Armistice Day centennial observance in Paris on Sunday, Macron said the "ancient demons" that caused World War I and millions of deaths are growing stronger.

The French leader said: "Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. In saying 'Our interests first, whatever happens to the others,' you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: Its moral values."

Trump has proudly declared himself a nationalist. Macron has set himself up as Europe's foil to nationalist movements that rail against global approaches, like ones that have taken hold in Hungary and Poland among other countries.

Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka ripped Macron's stance on America's Veterans Day.

"People don't die for globalization," Gorka told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" on Sunday morning. "They don't die for the united nations. They die for their nation and for their fellow soldier, marine, airmen.

"This is an outrage, the idea that you're going to worship something outside your nation. Mr. Macron, look up the word 'Nationalism' in a dictionary. It says in English or French, 'Love of the nation, devotion to your country.' How is that a bad thing?"

Gorka also ripped the EU for being "unserious about their defense."

"European nations, until Donald Trump arrived, have been un unserious about their defense," Gorka told Fox News. ". . . The president just increased our defense budget by an increment, just the increase, which is bigger than any NATO budget, bigger than France, bigger than Germany, bigger than the U.K.

"They haven't been serious because they were the freeloaders since NATO was created in 1949."