Time was, a US President wouldn’t dream of criticising the government of one of its Nato allies in public – but that was a long, long time ago, before the Age of Trump. ‘The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition,’ tweeted President Trump yesterday. ‘Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture. We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen to us.’ Of course Trump is being terribly undiplomatic. No surprise there. That’s his thing – that’s what he does. But is he right?
When Trump says the German people are turning against their leadership, he’s bang on the money. The latest opinion polls make dismal reading for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ‘Grand Coalition’ of centre-right Christian Democrats and soft-left Social Democrats.
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