Came here to say the same thing. I found it interesting because he mentioned it at least 2x that "France just had an election... paper ballots, and everything went flawlessly..." (paraphrasing).

But it seemed kinda fishy to me. So I was wondering if Trump was writing that one off as a lost cause, use it as leverage to get to paper ballots under a much-more controlled system.

Which problems ? People were just told to vote for Macron and they did. French people tend to trust the media more than in the US