Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson 'Thoughts are with France'

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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson: 'Thoughts are with France' New Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says his thoughts are with people of France after a terror attack at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice. 'This is war:' Donald Trump quickly seizes on 'horrific' Nice Bastille Day attack and says if elected president, he will ask Congress for declaration of war on ISIS Donald Trump quickly seized on reports of another deadly attack in France He took to Twitter to say: 'When will we learn? It is only getting worse' The billionaire said 'it's about time' Obama used the term 'radical Islam' If elected, he said he would ask Congress for declaration of war on ISIS He also used the opportunity to reiterate his plan on banning people from 'terrorist nations' from entering the United States Mogul says he has canceled his VP announcement scheduled for Friday At least 80 people were killed after a truck plowed into a crowd in Nice Truck reportedly mounted curb at 40mph, hitting those watching fireworks WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT Donald Trump said if elected president, he would declare war on the Islamic State - hours after quickly seizing on horrific reports of another deadly attack in France to ask his Twitter followers: 'When will we learn?' Trump was responding to reports that 80 people had been killed and more than 100 injured when a truck carrying weapons and hand grenades plowed into people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on Thursday evening. Although it was not immediately clear who was behind the attack, Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, Trump said: 'This is war.' He said if he's elected president, he would ask Congress for a declaration of war on ISIS – as unconfirmed reports claimed the terror group had claimed responsibility for the attack. Vocal: Trump, who is in the process of vetting his Vice-Presidential running mate, was a loud voice in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks 'It's probably, possibly, but if it is indeed radical Islamic terrorism, it's about time that [Obama] would say so, OK? 'It's about time, because you're never gonna solve this problem unless you're gonna define it. People would sigh with relief. If it's radical Islamic terrorism, he oughta say it.' Meanwhile, President Obama condemned what he said 'appears to be a horrific terrorist attack' in Nice. Noting that the attack occurred on Bastille Day, Obama said: 'We are reminded of the extraordinary resilience and democratic values that have made France an inspiration to the entire world, and we know that the character of the French Republic will endure long after this devastating and tragic loss of life.' Obama said the U.S. has offered French officials 'any assistance that they may need to investigate this attack and bring those responsible to justice.' But Trump used the attacks as an opportunity to reiterate his plan of solving the problem of terrorism by placing a ban on Muslims coming into the country. 'We have to tighten things up. Look at San Bernardino, what happened there. 'You look at Paris, prior to this, 130 people dead. Hundreds of people still in the hospital. I mean, what are we doing? We're trying to be so nice. We're trying to be so civil. 'We're so weak, the world has got to strengthen up and we have to be very tight with our borders.' On the attacks in Nice, Trump said: 'We're living in a whole different world that there's no respect for law and order. There's no respect for anything or anybody. 'This has to be dealt with very harshly. When I come out with my non-politically correct statements that a lot of people love and some people think are so terrible and then you have attacks like this and so many other attacks We have to get awfully tough and we have to get very, very smart and vigilant. And if we don't, we're just not going to have a society, we're not going to have a world anymore.' Asked what he would do to address the problem of terrorism if he was president, Trump replied: 'Well, I'd be making it very, very hard for people to come into our country, for one thing, from terrorist areas. 'I would be so extreme in terms of documentation. Obama's allowing a lot of people to come in. No idea who they are. They're from Syria, maybe, but they have no paperwork. 'I would not allow people to come in from terrorist nations. I would do extreme vetting, I would call it extreme vetting too. 'Our country has tremendous problems. We don't need any more of the problems.' In a separate interview on Fox, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said the U.S. needs to 'stand strongly' with France and strengthen alliances, including with NATO, in order to ferret out terrorism and prevent future attacks.