Fried – the view from Berlin
Why we should wish Merz and Trump a good wire
Trump and Merz got on well. But is that wanted with this president at all? It depends on how to do it, our columnist finds.
Well, it went well for Friedrich Merz. Donald Trump did not finish him, but praised him; He did not pull him to the tyranny, but recognized his English; He did not ask for the Chancellor to coalize with the AfD. Trump is enough that Merz broke with Angela Merkel. President and Chancellor, they can do well together – as Merz once predicted. For the first time, you can fully say about this Chancellor: promised, held.
Uh, wait a minute, Trump and Merz now very thick? Isn’t this Trump, who is just sending soldiers against demonstrators, insults the judiciary, strokes development aid, raising tariffs, claiming Canada and the Panama Canal, throwing out students, fighting Harvard, reducing taxes for rich, shortening and enriching themselves and his family, in short: The American Alb-Dream? Isn’t that the president, in whom it appears almost honorable when you are folded up or humiliated in the Oval Office because it documents the ignorance, ugliness and mendacity of this narcissist and his government of saliva masking?
Friedrich Merz found the right measure of closeness and distance
Yes, this is this Donald Trump, whom the Germans – and not only them – despise, fear, fear or consider it crazy. And now our Chancellor gets along with that? And suddenly we think that is good? So so.
The problem in politics – and in foreign policy – is that you can only work with those who are there. As irrational as this president seems to us, the majority in the United States are clear. We can close our eyes and wish to be very, very, very, that Trump may disappear. It will not succeed.
Unfortunately, Trump is also the top representative of a state on which Germany is still dependent for many years if it wants to live in safety. Gerhard Schröder once did the dispute over the Iraq war with the then US President George W. Bush. Many found that right – but we were not really good either.
Friedrich Merz has found the right measure of closeness and distance. He did not pay homage to this president, but the United States, its history, also about Germany, and conjured up their influence in international politics up to the war of Russia against Ukraine. The Chancellor put up with his kind, but he didn’t go to Trump’s (Sch) glue.
Donald Trump is a child’s head
And what good? Trump himself compared the war between Russia and Ukraine with the dispute of two children. The way he understands this kind of conflicting shows the way his friendship breaks up to Elon Musk. The president not only sees others than child heads, he is one in his simple thinking himself.
If Merz builds up a wire to Trump, he can explain to him why the president also harms the United States with high tariffs; Why a good relationship with Europe can be useful; Why Putin is the criminal and not Selenskyj. Apparently the current President of the United States has to be taken a little. If Friedrich Merz can do that, that’s not much. But something.
Source: Stern
I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.
