German leaders oppose Donald Trump and seemingly prefer Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

Various of Germany’s political leaders, when commenting about the Democratic and Republican nominees for the US presidency, have repeatedly made negative statements against Donald Trump, but not so much against Hillary Clinton.

Notice, for example, the following:

17 August 2016

Germany’s European affairs minister Michael Roth told the Reuters news agency that statements made by US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about Germany’s reaction to the refugee influx were incorrect. …

“I’m sorry that the Republican presidential candidate trumpets out things like that without any factual basis,” Roth told Reuters.

“If he had studied the actual situation in Germany, he would know that, while the many refugees who came to Germany and Europe pose a big challenge for us, and everything is still not completely resolved, they have not led to a massive increase in crime rates,” Reuters further quoted the minister as saying. …

He also stressed that Trump’s comments were based on “fears, lies and half-truths”, while underlining the importance of the US election and its outcome for the entire world …

Trump had said earlier that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to welcome more than a million refugees to Germany in 2015 was a “disaster.” He had made the comments during a campaign rally in Ohio earlier in the week, likening his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to the German leader.

“In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel and you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to Germany and the people of Germany,” Trump said in his statement.

“Crime has risen to levels that no one thought they would ever, ever see. It is a catastrophe.”

Statistics compiled by the German Interior Ministry showed that the number of crimes reported in 2015 remained essentially unchanged from the previous year (excluding visa and other immigration violations). …

In addition to Clinton, incumbent US President Barack Obama has also spoken in favor of Merkel’s policy, saying that Germany was acting on the right side of history. …

Another prominent German politician, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, also spoke out against Trump earlier in August, calling the presidential hopeful a “hate preacher.” German Chancellor Merkel has largely kept herself out of the public discourse about the US elections. http://www.dw.com/en/german-minister-reacts-to-trumps-comments-on-merkels-refugee-policy/a-19479228

As far as crime statistics go, it is interesting to note that it appears that if immigration violations are included (and these are usually considered to be crimes), reported crime apparently did go up in Germany. The way this was reported in two articles I saw in the German press attempted to make Donald Trump’s claim about German crime rising false. While his claim about it rising “to levels that no one thought they would ever” may be in error (I say may be, because there could be categories of crime that rose dramatically, but I have not seen those details published in the English language), it is likely that crime in Germany (reported and otherwise) has risen, at least a bit.

Notice also some earlier reports and negative comments by German leaders related to Donald Trump:

In December 2015, former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg called Donald Trump “that blonde lunatic named Donald” (Wish List or Reality? Digital Trends in 2016 | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | hub conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgdZUA96UBU. Posted December 11, 2015).

March 4, 2016

Germany’s Der Spiegel has called Trump the most dangerous man in the world. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35702584

5 March 2016

History is being written right now in America. That is always exciting. But in this case it is also dramatic. An entire country is changing before our eyes. Though he may not have started it, Donald Trump is the man who is now speeding up and steering this process in a very dangerous direction. Like a bulldozer on a rampage, he is destroying the foundations of this freedom-loving and once so self-assured nation.

And the country is letting him do it. …

Has America given up?

The country seems rotten, like a once mighty tree that is leaning precariously. It remains to be seen if it can weather the gathering storm or will come crashing down.

In the eyes of a growing number of voters, the country’s elite, which only thinks of itself, is also rotten. It is an elite that, despite the country’s economic well-being, has starved the middle-class and robbed them of the fruits of their labor. The fact that more and more Americans are growing angry is understandable. But the conclusions that they are reaching are not. …

Searching for a tough guy

Trump is the tough guy many people feel could finally change things. Even if it seems stupefying: When he hammers away at the masses, repeating that he will “beat” the Chinese, the Mexicans and whoever else he has to in order to “make America great again,” he is guaranteed thundering applause. Even though he has not provided a single workable political policy. …

Fear and aggression

Trump’s success says a lot about Americans and about the state of the nation. But what can be inferred from these messages is not good. Not good for America and not good for Germany and America’s other allies.

The country is changing. Decency and politeness are apparently on the decline, mean-spiritedness and ruthlessness are rewarded. Global responsibility is being replaced by nationalist egocentricity. Fear and aggression are now coming together in an unholy symbiosis. Trump is the champion of this paradigm shift. Many think he’s great simply because he is so mean. …

It is also not a forgone conclusion that Hillary Clinton, should she be her party’s nominee, will be able to derail the increasingly likely Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. (Schließ G. Opinion: The changing face of the USA. Deutsche Welle, 5 March 2016. http://www.dw.com/en/opinion-the-changing-face-of-the-usa/a-19096986)

March 6, 2016

BERLIN German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has criticized leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a right-wing populist whose political views pose a threat to peace and prosperity. …

“Whether Donald Trump, Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders – all these right-wing populists are not only a threat to peace and social cohesion, but also to economic development,” Gabriel told Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

Gabriel said that Trump and France’s Le Pen were promising voters “a way back into a fairytale world” in which economic activity only happened within national borders but that history has shown such isolated economies have no chance to develop. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-germany-idUSMTZSAPEC36LTD4ZC

19 July 2016

Donald Trump, having clinched the Republican Party’s nomination for the Nov. 8 presidential election, threatens U.S. and world security with his “politics of fear and isolation,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.

Steinmeier told Reuters in a written interview that he was concerned about what he called Trump’s ambiguous vows to “make America strong again,” while simultaneously reducing its engagement overseas.

“That is contradictory and it makes me concerned,” Steinmeier said as he headed to Washington for meetings with other foreign and defense ministers to assess the U.S.-led effort to defeat the Islamic State extremist group.

“A politics of fear and isolation will bring less security, not more, and would be dangerous not only for the United States, but for Europe and the rest of the world as well.” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-germany-trump-idUSKCN0ZZ2YY

While statements against Donald Trump have been direct, statement related to Hillary Clinton have not been nearly so negative, normally positive if anything (see, for example, the following from the German press yesterday: Is Merkel’s immigration policy like Clinton’s?).

Several months ago, I wrote:

Even if Donald Trump does not become US President, the fact that Donald Trump has done as well with voters as he has is an offense to the Europeans and is getting them to question their connections to the USA.

Now, I wrote the above statement months before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination. And notice the following confirmation from one apparently from Germany:

15 August 2016

The US has long warned its European partners it was losing patience with paying the majority of NATO’s bills. The nomination of Donald Trump has made the threats of a US withdrawal from NATO seem real and present. …

Constanze Stelzenmüller, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and frequent commentator on her native Germany, says even if Trump doesn’t win and cut off US support for NATO, damage has been done. “The reality is that in politics, just talking about this kind of thing, as a candidate who isn’t even elected yet, already has an impact on people’s expectations and on the relationship in the ‘now’ as opposed to in November or in January,” she says. “It is damaging the transatlantic relationship which is based on trust and the assumption that we have a broad commonality of interests and values now because Europeans understand that Trump is not a singular phenomenon, he is a symptom of a broader mood.”

That mood sees Americans turning away not just from NATO but from other international involvement as well. Erik Brattberg, a Swedish senior fellow with the McCain Institute on International Leadership, believes the transatlantic free-trade deal known as TTIP, already struggling under a supportive President Obama, would face certain doom under Trump. But Brattberg says there would be bigger things to worry about in that case, such as “what does the West actually stand for anymore?”

Brattberg says it’s no longer clear whether the US worldview is “liberalism, openness and globalization” or “nationalism, protectionism and religion.” “These are fundamental questions that I think both American and European citizens are going to face,” he says. “And the elections, both here and other elections coming up in Europe, are going to be pivotal for how we respond to them.” http://www.dw.com/en/would-a-trump-america-walk-away-from-nato/a-19475314

Donald Trump has concerned, and offended, the Europeans. And as this post shows, definitely the Germans.

Look for Donald Trump to further offend the Germans.

If Donald Trump does actually become the President of the United States, his simply holding that office will provide motivation to the Germans and other Europeans to further develop their militaries.

Just the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency has, in my view, already encouraged that process, as it seems to be beginning (e.g. Bundeswehr wants EU nationals to be soldiers and German Defense Minister states that Germany is now ready to lead Europe militarily).

This will not end well for the USA, whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton’s get elected as the next President of the United States (cf. Daniel 11:39).

Many German leaders are very concerned, and enough, in my view, to take militaristic steps, even if many do not think that is their nature (cf. Isaiah 10:7; see also Germany in Biblical Prophecy). Consider also that it appears that a Germanic-leader will become the King of the North, the Beast of the Sea, and 666 of biblical prophecy.

The USA needs prayer, national repentance, and the Kingdom of God.

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