Germany has become a country of Trumpites
It may seem hard to believe, but the country that was scandalised like no other by Donald Trump’s every utterance during his four years in the White House has, almost overnight, become a country of MAGA hat wearing, frothing Trump fanatics.
They just can’t admit it to themselves yet.
1st conversion to MAGISM - Iran
This morning, the general secretary of the Free Democrats, Bijan Djir-Sarai, was being interviewed on Deutschlandfunk radio about Iran. In teh interview, he demanded an end to talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal with the justification that no other countries in the Middle East want the deal. So why does the EU think that it knows better?
To which the interviewer responded: “So, does that mean that Donald Trump was right to pull out of the deal when he did?”
Mr Djir-Sarai didn’t know what to say.
He couldn’t possibly say that Trump was right. That is the closest thing to political suicide that there is in Germany.
Instead…
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