Eric Zemmour, a xenophobic far-right TV host officially announced his campaign for the French presidency on Tuesday, the New York Times reports. Zemmour, a Trump wannabe who uses all the same tropes about a nation in decline because of Muslim immigrants and identity politics, has twice been charged and convicted of inciting racial or religious hatred with his comments. Despite being the son of Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Algeria himself, Zemmour is an apologist for the World War II Vichy regime, having published a book in 2014 which sought to exonerate Philippe Pétain and his collaborators for the deportation of French Jews to Holocaust death camps in Nazi Germany.