He does know better. But he's using Paris as a metonym for "foreign, cunning, sophisticated city-slicker trickery designed to bamboozle the good plain folks of Pittsburgh." He clearly believes this will work, rhetorically. That's dismaying--
https://twitter.com/JuliaCarmel__/status/1352059136922497029
both because it's stupid, obviously, but because it's personal. I live in Paris. I'm a US citizen. Am I excluded from the community of real and authentic Americans because I live in Paris? I suspect that's just what he means.
He's courting the votes of people who reject the idea of "Paris." What does "Paris" signify to most Americans? Art, literature, architecture, culture, fashion, wine. A list of associated words: 
"Paris" is meant to represent, "snobs who look down on the good, plain people of Pittsburgh."
Paris is one of the world's great centers of literature, civilization, and culture. But all of that is for "snobs."
Paris is one of the world's great centers of literature, civilization, and culture. But all of that is for "snobs."
The problem with this kind of populist, class-war message is, first, that it encourages class war, which is a bit rich from a politician eager to denounce Democrats as "radical socialists."
But it's also an anti-civilization message.
But it's also an anti-civilization message.
The implication is that all the things for which Paris is justly renowned are to be hated and feared: They're un-American. Real Americans, in this understanding, are inward-looking, insecure, and incurious about the world and its grandeur and splendor.
Those attitudes are not the mark of a healthy and self-confident society.
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