In a vicious rant the French President hit out at the leaders of the leave campaign, just hours after the EU tore apart Theresa May's Chequers plans.
Speaking at the end of the EU Salzburg summit this afternoon, he sneered: "Brexit has shown us one thing – and I fully respect British sovereignty in saying this – it has demonstrated that those who said you can easily do without Europe, that it will all go very well, that it is easy and there will be lots of money, are liars.
"This is all the more true because they left the next day, so they didn't have to manage it."
And he added that leaving the EU was the "choice pushed by certain people who predicted easy solutions" – in a swipe clearly aimed at Brexiteers such as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.
At the press conference he also made clear he wanted more detail on any future Brexit plans, adding that he won't accept a "blind deal" which would leave our trading relationship to be decided later.
And he demanded that the PM come up with yet more new proposals in the next three weeks.
"We all agreed on this today, the proposals in their current state are not acceptable, especially on the economic side of it," he blasted.
"The Chequers plan cannot be take it or leave it..
His vicious words came after Donald Tusk issued a withering take-down of Mrs May.
He said her Chequers plans "won't work" and made it clear the bloc thinks they will undermine their rules.
A visibly fuming Mrs May said afterwards that her plan was still the only credible one on offer, and would continue to push for it.
But she also made clear she wasn't afraid of leaving without a deal.
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