Donald Trump seems (and only seems) calmer lately. He hasn’t opened new media fires for days, not even on his networks. All this coincides with , where he was received by the supreme leader, Xi Jinping.
Left behind, for now, are their thousand and one confrontations with Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Cuba… and Germany, a country where . Because in recent weeks there have been constant Trump’s verbal barrages to the German Government and back.
Berlin has not been silent, to the point of, and this Friday its chancellor, Friedrich Merzhas chosen ‘reopen fire’ at a rhetorical level.
The head of the German Executive assured during a debate with young people at the Würzburg Catholic Congress that he “I wouldn’t recommend” your own children go to the US today. And he has given reasons that will surely make Trump and his cabinet feel very bad.
“I wouldn’t recommend my children go to the United States today, to be educated and work theresimply because the social climate has suddenly changed“explained Friedrich Merz.
What is evidently a criticism of Trump’s current mode of action has been quickly qualified by the Central European politician himself. Although the nuance has had another nuance, in turn. To make it understandable, Merz has pointed out that He is “a great admirer” of the USalthough “my admiration is not increasing right now“, as he has ironically, amid laughter from the audience.
But then they are friends…
On a more serious note, we sense, Merz and Trump held a telephone conversation this Friday after concluding the official agenda of the North American president’s trip to China. A “good” callthe Christian Democrat leader has clarified.
Outside of the debate and through his networks, the German chancellor has highlighted that he and Trump “agree that Iran must come to the negotiating table nowin which it should open the Strait of Hormuzthat Tehran should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
Iran aside, the US and Germany have brought closer a possible ‘roadmap’ to find a peaceful solution to the war in Ukrainewhich is on its way to four and a half years. Likewise, they have tried to coordinate your positions as a preview of the already close one NATO summitwhich will be held in Ankara (Türkiye) in July. “The United States and Germany are strong partners in a strong NATO,” Merz concluded, removing here any reference to disagreements between him and Trump… there are and many.
