Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald's, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump
Source: The Guardian
Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump
France has been urged to shun Maga America as #BoycottUSA hashtag spreads, but teenagers say they can’t afford to join the action
Kim Willsher in Paris
Sat 29 Mar 2025 17.47 GMT
Last modified on Sat 29 Mar 2025 18.31 GMT
On the rainy Grands Boulevards in Paris on Friday, the branches of McDonald’s and KFC were doing brisk business.
There was little sign of “le boycott” – a movement among French customers to reject American brands and products made in the US, in protest at Donald Trump’s trade tariffs and anti-Europe rhetoric.
A poll, which splashed the front page of the Libération newspaper last week, found that more than six out of 10 French people support shunning American products, and almost one in three are already avoiding them.
The #BoycottUSA hashtag has spread across social media networks in what researchers say is a “historic collapse” of the US’s image in France, America’s third largest European trading partner.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/29/boycott-french-customers-mcdonalds-coca-cola-trump-tesla
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