Plus the man lies and cheats.
Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented attack on Angela Merkel’s government, tweeting that “the people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition”.
While the US president has previously been openly critical of Germany’s export surplus and defence spending, he has refrained from openly criticising the country’s migration policy since taking office in 2017.
During the US presidential campaign, Trump called Merkel’s decision to keep open the country’s borders to Syrian refugees in the summer of 2015 “insane”.
In his latest tweet, Trump said “crime in Germany is way up”. In May, Germany’s interior ministry recorded the lowest crime levels since 1992.
“Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” he added.
