US President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that Germany’s leaders were losing the support of the public over the migration issue.
His untimely comments come amid a deepening split between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leader of her coalition ally , Horst Seehofer, over asylum policy and border controls.
Trump told his Twitter followers: “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition.”
The US leader went on to say that “Crime in Germany is way up” before adding that there had been a “big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”
In a warning to the American electorate, Trump warned: “We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!”
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