French President Emmanuel Macron has referred to Haiti's leaders as morons, sparking a diplomatic row between the two nations, reports The Guardian. According to the publication, Haiti's government summoned the French ambassador to formally protest what it described as unfriendly and inappropriate remarks made by President Macron.

Macron’s remarks appear to come from a place of a highground that his country’s colonial past with Haiti ill-affords.

According to a video taken at this week's G20 summit in Brazil, the French president described the decision by Haiti's transitional council to remove Prime Minister Garry Conille as 'terrible.'

Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron in a video at the G20 summit in Brazil, in which he called the Haitian transitional council "total morons" for firing former prime minister Garry Conille, caused outrage when shared online on Thursday. Haiti was quick to label Macron's remarks as "unacceptable", and summoned the French ambassador.

French President Emmanuel Macron accused Haiti's transitional council of being "total morons" for dismissing the country's prime minister, according to a video shot at the G20 summit in Brazil this