Her German political rivals.
It’s the last month before the German election, and she’s now got the guaranteed win.
If you go and ask working-class Germans to rate issues...the anti-Trump agenda is likely problem number 300 for the average guy. It doesn’t fit on the German news media listing....even though they’ve tried to make it a topic every single night for the first six months of the administration. The general public in Germany have moved on.
And if you were asking for topic number one in Germany? It’s the topic that no political figure wants to talk on (and it’s NOT immigration)....it’s the diesel car crisis.
Her statement is insulting. She should show respect by her behavior. I believe the translation was imprecise. What she really said is closer to
As difficult as it is to imagine, we have to take the trouble to pretend to respect Trump in order to keep up sales of grotesquely overpriced cars and to keep the Russians from taking shits in our cupboards, and raping even more girls than the Muslims.