How worried are Europe's leaders about Trump?
French President Francois Hollande says the Republican presidential candidate 'makes you want to retch'
The prospect of the outspoken billionaire businessman Donald Trump becoming the next US president is making some European leaders nervous – and in some cases nauseous.
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that a victory for Republican president candidate Trump would cause a right-wing shift in global politics and that the Republican presidential candidate "makes you want to retch."
Speaking to journalist in Paris, the socialist leader said Trump's recent war of words with the Muslim parents of a US soldier who was killed in action, were "hurtful and humiliating comments."
"His excesses make you want to retch, even in the United States, especially when — as in the case with Donald Trump — he speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier," Hollande told journalists in Paris, according to various media reports.
"If the Americans choose Trump, (it) will have consequences, because an American election is a world election," he added.
Trump has courted controversy throughout his campaign to secure the Republican nomination having offended Mexicans, Muslims and women with a series of contentious policies and unguarded comments. For others fed up with the political establishment however, Trump represents a breath of fresh air.