ER Editor: Another public skewering of a nation’s leader at the White House. A reminder that it’s all a show. We don’t imagine for a second that former BlackRock CEO Merz would still be around under EO 13818. Merkel certainly isn’t.
A reminder of how weird this woman was —
“Concerns for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s health grow once more as she was filmed struggling to keep her composure and visibly shaking during an official ceremony for the second time this month.” https://t.co/5S7JRcOfWu
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) June 27, 2019
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she’s fine after visibly shaking during Berlin ceremony https://t.co/KhAdAzdazJ pic.twitter.com/nJvzsu89cK
— TIME (@TIME) June 18, 2019
Something you’d never expect —
This video from around 5 years ago, evoking Hillary Clinton famously going into that large black vehicle on 9/11, 2016 —
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is shamelessly using what looks like a VW Kombi T6 instead of a solid 15-car convoy of high-end Bavarian luxury sedans & SAVs.
I’ve never been so disgusted. She really needs to take a leaf from SA politicians’ book.
— Vusi Sambo (@VusiSambo) April 26, 2020
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Trump scorns Merkel legacy during new German chancellor’s White House visit
Friedrich Merz struggles to get word in as US president focuses on record of former German leader who left office in 2021
KATE CONNOLLY for THE GUARDIAN
Donald Trump has heaped criticism on the former German chancellor Angela Merkel for opening up her country to refugees, telling her successor: “I told her it shouldn’t have happened.”
During an appearance with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Thursday, Trump was asked about the sweeping travel restrictions on 19 countries that he announced the previous day.
“We want to keep bad people out of our country … of course, you have a little problem too with some of the people that were allowed into your country,” Trump said to Merz, in an apparent reference to a number of attacks in Germany involving refugees.
Merz replied: “Yes we do,” before Trump continued: “It’s not your fault … It shouldn’t have happened. I told her it shouldn’t have happened, but it did. But you have your own difficulty with that, and we do.”
He was referring to Merkel, but did not call her by name. The former chancellor visited the White House in 2017, during Trump’s first term of office, when she was given a grilling by Trump over her so-called open-door policy, which allowed around 1 million refugees – mainly from Syria and Iraq – into Germany.
Merz’s highly anticipated visit had been viewed with trepidation in Berlin, amid fears that the German leader may face another Oval Office ambush, such as those endured by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa.
In the end, all the criticism was levied at Merkel, a former political rival of Merz. Trump also made a dig about Merkel’s enthusiasm for the building of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which brought gas from Russia to Europe.
During the 35-minute press conference, Merz struggled to get a word in, though as German commentators noted, that was probably to the relief of his advisers, who feared there were a number of issues on which Trump might have pilloried him, from defence spending to immigration.
When he did manage to speak, the former corporate lawyer mostly focused on Ukraine and the need to end the conflict, in particular by bringing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to account.
Merz also pushed back several times on Trump’s narrative that Ukraine and Russia were equally to blame for the war.
“I’m here, Mr President, to talk to you later on how we could contribute to that goal [to end the war]. We are all looking for measures and for instruments to bring this terrible war to an end,” Merz said.
He compared the US role in ending the conflict with the part US troops played in defeating the Nazi dictatorship. He noted that Friday will mark the 81st anniversary of D-day, in which tens of thousands of US troops joined allied troops in invading Normandy.
The US, he said, was “again, in the very strong position to do something” about ending the war. Trump, he said, was the “key person in the world” who could stop the war “by putting pressure on Russia”.
Trump praised Germany for having agreed to boost its defence spending to 5% of GDP, after years-long demands from Washington for it to do so.
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Featured image source, Merkel: https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/video-angela-merkel-germany-covid-coronavirus-tears-plea_564246_102.html
Featured image source, Trump with Merz: https://x.com/amconmag/status/1930652153841868949
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