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(Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered an uncharacteristically blunt rebuke of President Donald Trumps attacks on minority congresswomen, saying the U.S. leaders position undermines the values that helped make the country successful.
The strength of America, from my perspective, is that its a country in which people from many different nationalities have contributed, Merkel told reporters in Berlin on Friday. Trumps calls for the four elected officials to return to where they came from are something that counteracts Americas strength.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Eager to preserve a beleaguered transatlantic relationship against Trumps threats over trade, defense spending and energy, the German leader typically adopts a measured tone when it comes to the combative U.S. president. Her most recent critique -- a takedown of the presidents leadership style at a Harvard University commencement address in May -- didnt refer to Trump by name.
But Merkel opted to speak directly against Trumps volley at the congresswomen, termed racist by Democrats and some Republicans. The incident was capped by broadly condemned Trump-rally chants of send her back -- directed at Somalia-born Representative Ilhan Omar, an American citizen from Minnesota.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/merkel-rebukes-trump-for-attacks-against-minority-congresswomen/ar-AAEzd35
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)The more he will be ignored when he has to appear with them.
Under Trump, we have become the laughing stock of the world. Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel gets it.