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.'

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 week and shared on social media Thursday.

President Macron, control yourself. In an off the cuff remark made on Thursday during the course of a visit to Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Macron called the Haitians who “fired” their prime minister “complete morons” for doing so.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting several South American nations during his attendance at this week’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is castigating members of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council for ousting the country’s second prime minister,

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,