Merkel Will Ride Out This Crisis, Too
Trump will be disappointed if he thinks the uproar over migrants will be her downfall.
She’s not going anywhere.
Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday reached a shaky compromise with her Bavarian coalition partner that gives her two weeks to make a deal with other European Union leaders on reforms to the bloc’s dysfunctional asylum system. It’s a tall order, but President Donald Trump is wrong to suggest that the migration issue is about to take down Merkel’s government.
“The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition,” Trump tweeted on Monday. “Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”