Extraordinary moment Trump apologizes to reporter immediately after calling her fake news: 'No sir'

President Donald Trump quickly rescinded his rebuke of a reporter on Monday after calling her fake news.

The commander-in-chief spoke briefly with reporters before heading to Kansas to stump for Republican candidates ahead of the midterm elections, when one journalist asked for his reaction to claims French President Emmanuel Macron blamed him for the violent riots that have swept the country.

'I think that's fake news,' Trump responded, before asking the female reporter: 'Who are you with?'

'No sir,' she replied. 'I'm Mary Margaret [Olohan] with The Daily Wire.' 

Trump then seemed to change his tone, smiling, as he told her: 'Oh, Daily Wire's good. Sorry, the Daily Wire's good.'

He then decided to answer her question, insisting that Macron 'is a friend of mine.'

'I told him a long time ago, "You're making a big mistake in France,"' Trump said. '"You're letting everybody from the world come in."'

'The whole world was coming in, and you know, Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon - and that wasn't the deal. That wasn't the deal.'

'I told Emmanuel you should close up your borders, and let's see, I've known him for probably eight or nine years. I told him as soon as I met him, "You're making a big mistake,"' the president continued.

'We closed our borders, he didn't. And you know what? His borders are a problem.'

'But Emmanuel should have closed his borders a long time ago,' he concluded. 'I told him to do it.' 

The president made similar remarks on his Truth Social platform over the weekend as shocking images emerged of masked rioters setting vehicles ablaze and looting stores.

He declared on Sunday that 'France is burning!' 

'The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country,' he posted on Sunday morning.

'Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!'

The demonstrations were started by teachers and students a month ago in response to staff shortages and have grown into a wider movement against rising prices. 

They have been joined by extremist politicians and activists such as Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the hard-Left France Unbowed party.

Scenes from the weekend showed looters in France smashing their way into designer stores to steal luxury items amid the 'unrestrained violence'.

Dozens of hooded young men were filmed swarming high-end outlets like Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton, leaving shelves of expensive jewelry and clothing entirely bare.

In an address Sunday night, Macron blamed 'agitators from far-Left fringe groups, joined by numerous criminals' for plunging his country into 'unbridled violence.' 

He made a plea 'for unity' following the weekend of chaos, which saw nearly 2,400 people arrested and almost 1,000 police and gendarmes injured – seven seriously.

'Looking at these images, we have all asked ourselves how French people could do this to France.

'Nothing justifies it, nothing explains it, nothing excuses it.

'Those who looted will have to pay back for the damage, and those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable,' he then vowed.