IT is almost blasphemous to the memory of the French Revolution of 1789 that US President Donald Trump has been invited to the country during Bastille Day celebrations.

The uprising of the Parisian masses on July 14, 1789, that began the French Revolution was to liberate prisoners of the Ancien Regime held in the Bastille Prison.

This establishment was not dissimilar to the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison on the island of Cuba where the US holds untried and unconvicted inmates on the mere suspicion of “terrorism.”

The French Revolution and its watchwords of “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” echoed around the world.

Only the Russian Revolution of 1917 has had a bigger worldwide impact, although owing to the monumental crimes of mass murderer, Stalin, and his successors and imitators, the original Socialist inspiration behind that momentous upheaval has been tarnished and devalued.

Trump is the very antithesis of everything that the French Revolutionaries were trying to achieve.

Their first objective was to overthrow the rule of the idle rich - the Church, the Monarchy, and the Nobility - living off the labour of the masses.

Billionaire Trump who inherited all his obscene wealth from his property speculator father, would have been a candidate for the guillotine had he been alive in 1789.

New French President Macron voted into office by an even smaller percentage of the French electorate than the less than a third of the American electorate that voted for Trump, will lose even more credibility by aligning himself with the eccentric US President.

James Roberts, Wallasey.