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Trump slams Merz, Germany after chancellor’s Iran ‘humiliation’ remarks
The Hill ^ | April 28, 2026

Posted on 04/28/2026 2:59:30 PM PDT by McGruff

President Trump slammed the chancellor of Germany on Tuesday after Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was being “humiliated” by Iran.

“The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “If Iran had a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage. I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago.”

“No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both Economically, and otherwise!” he wrote.

Merz, speaking to students Monday in Germany, said that the “Americans clearly have no strategic plan,” according to the translated speech.

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The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! If Iran had a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage. I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago. No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both Economically, and otherwise! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Apr 28, 2026, 2:25 PM

1 posted on 04/28/2026 2:59:30 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

“I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago.”

Amen.


2 posted on 04/28/2026 3:05:00 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: McGruff

Merz doesn’t believe Trump will get the U-235.

Neither do I.


3 posted on 04/28/2026 3:20:44 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: McGruff

Mr. President,

Now is not the time to be a nice guy.

We have these cockroaches on their backs. Now is the time to stomp them.

Every bridge, dam, and power plant.

Sincerely,
Ben


4 posted on 04/28/2026 3:35:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: McGruff

The real message on this and Ukraine, is that Germany is a weakling.


5 posted on 04/28/2026 3:36:51 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Mariner

Merz’s strategic plan is to surrender to Islam. Same with Britain and France.


6 posted on 04/28/2026 3:50:00 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: McGruff

Iran has had 47 years of appeasement.


7 posted on 04/28/2026 4:07:38 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: McGruff

It’s been < 81 years since the end of the second world war started by German ‘leaders’. There were 400,000 - 420,000 American military deaths as a consequence, plus the death of all those in the Allied forces, and all the Jews killed in concentration camps.

Germany’s hegemony and militarism at that time in history caused great hurt to many around the world. Now, maybe as a consequence of national guilt, they want to make the EU create group suicide, and destabilize the rest of the world in the process. I have zero interest in what a German Chancellor has to say.


8 posted on 04/28/2026 4:32:13 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: ChessExpert; Mariner
Merz’s strategic plan is to surrender to Islam. Same with Britain and France.

Apparently Mariner's plan as well.

9 posted on 04/28/2026 4:34:28 PM PDT by xone ( )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Reality: Merz slams Trump and the US, President Trump responds appropriately.

10 posted on 04/28/2026 4:39:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: xone

“Apparently Mariner’s plan as well. “

Why would you fabricate that?

Asshole.


11 posted on 04/28/2026 5:14:45 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Potus is trying to get out of the situation as much as possible. The nuclear ‘dust’ talk and victory nonsense. Almost everything is market timed by his tweets and comments. Will be a interesting rest of week.


12 posted on 04/28/2026 5:52:30 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: McGruff
Remember the boys' get together?

Strategic.....

13 posted on 04/28/2026 5:54:44 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Theoria

“Will be a interesting rest of week.”

He put himself between a rock and a hard place.

On one side is his personal interest.

On the other is the national interest.

He cannot have both. So he’ll bluster and bullshit until it all goes away.

Except this time it won’t.


14 posted on 04/28/2026 6:01:41 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

He’s gonna leave and say we have a deal. I’m leaning that way. The constant declaring victory nonsense. Oil doesn’t care how much someone says they won.


15 posted on 04/28/2026 6:04:58 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

“He’s gonna leave and say we have a deal.”

He cannot finesse the failure to acquire the U-235.

He either does, or does not.

He either wins or loses on that single item.


16 posted on 04/28/2026 6:14:53 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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