Trump scorns Merkel legacy during new German chancellor’s White House visit
by Kate Connolly in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#6XSCP)
Friedrich Merz struggles to get word in as US president focuses on record of former German leader who left office in 2021
Donald Trump has heaped criticism on the former German chancellor Angela Merkel for opening up her country to refugees, telling her successor: I told her it shouldn't have happened."
During an appearance with the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Thursday, Trump was asked about the sweeping travel restrictions on 19 countries that he announced the previous day.
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