Le Boycott: clienti francesi Shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola e Tesla per protestare contro Trump | Francia

We should all be doing this.

How often are they even eating McDonald’s and drinking Coke? Seems performative tbh.

I am shunning Maccas since ‘99, but will drop more Anerican brands

Waiting for Europeans to boycott the real american deal like google, meta, x, Microsoft (why won’t we ditch windows for Linux?), Apple.

Vive la révolution!

Flashbacks to post-9/11 when angry Americans renamed ‘french fries’ to ‘freedom fries’.

France has been urged to shun Maga America as #BoycottUSA hashtag spreads, but teenagers say they can’t afford to join the action

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 ](http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/trumps-tariff-obsession)and anti-Europe rhetoric.

A [poll](https://www.nyc.fr/presse/boycott-usa/), 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.

Students Mathieu, 16, Jade, 15, and Esther, 17, heading in to the McDonald’s on Friday, were not about to be diverted by trade tariffs, however. “I understand why people are suggesting we avoid American products, but it’s something people with money can afford to do. As students we can’t,” Jade said.

Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Tesla, Starbucks, KFC and X are among the US brands that have been cited as those to be shunned. Those questioned by pollsters also cited Apple, Microsoft, booking platforms Airbnb and Tripadvisor, Nike and Converse.

Alain, 43, a pest controller, walked past carrying a Nike bag, having just bought new trainers. “I understand the boycott, but they are the best and they are what I always buy,” he said.

What France’s consumers say and what they do are different matters, said François Kraus from pollsters Ifop, which carried out the study.

“We are starting to see a sanctioning of the US and its policies in people’s attitudes, but there is a gap between the position people have in principle and what they do in practice,” Kraus told the *Observer*.

The poll found leftwing Democrat sympathisers, those over the age of 65 and those with net incomes above €2,400 a month were most in favour of the boycott.

“We found the one-third who say they are boycotting are mostly people who are well-educated and reasonably well off who are making a considered and informed decision. These are people who once they change their habits they stick to it,” Kraus added.

“They are aware of transatlantic tensions and, as long as Trump is in office, they will be [boycotting US products](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/i-feel-utter-anger-from-canada-to-europe-a-movement-to-boycott-us-goods-is-spreading). It is difficult to see, however, what impact this will have in the long term.”

Yes because that will actually do something to make Europe better.

You all are good at boycotting and protesting.

Why don’t you try getting good at actually doing something?

Seriously 1.500 McDonald’s in France? The French should be ashamed.

80% of you are riding on a US based cloud service to launch your outrage.

Actually who is McDo anyway? They’re a franchise with restaurants operated locally, selling local produce. So how much of the revenue actually goes to the u.s. of A?

All of Europe should stop taking 100% of US products immediately!