Chancellor Scholz Gets Some German Schadenfreude After Accident
Chancellor Olaf Scholz wearing an eye patch while attending the annual St. Michael reception of the Catholic Church in Berlin, on Sept. 4.
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz was the subject of some German Schadenfreude Monday after a weekend jogging accident.
In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Scholz showed a picture of himself wearing an eye patch to cover up what appeared to be bruising and scratches to the area around his right eye. The post sparked a wave of social media memes and provided some light-hearted relief for the leader of Europe’s largest economy.