New German Chancellor Rips Trump in Acceptance Speech
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Who is the new German Chancellor and what was his message?
Germany's new chancellor, Frederick Meyers, did not hold back in his acceptance speech over this weekend in his condemnation of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance, and the American government under those individuals. There were elections held in Germany. Musk, Trump, JD Vance, and the MAGA movement in America were supporting the German neo-Nazi party known as the AFD, which was also aligned with Russia. The AFD did worse than what they were expected to do in some initial polling. They came in second. The CDU, CSU came in first. They are going to be able to form a government forthwith. And over here, the new chancellor, which is the leader in Germany, Frederick Meyers, did not hold back. He lumped Donald Trump, Musk. J.D. Vance together with enemies like Vladimir Putin and Russia. He talked about the election interference, the malicious and wanted interference that was engaged in by Trump, Musk, J.D. Vance, and other magas in America, similar to what Putin was doing.
Chancellor Meyers also is providing a very strong defense of Ukraine and also spoke about a strong Europe. Let me show you this part of Chancellor Mayer's acceptance speech where he called out Donald Trump, Musk and Vance and compared them to Putin.
Play this clip. The absolute priority from my point of view is that the Europeans communicate and are united among themselves. Currently the larger part of European politics without Germany. It has of course something to do with the election campaign and also now this interim phase, but I am in close communication with many prime ministers, heads of state and government leaders of the European Union. And for me the absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that we step by step also truly achieve independence from the USA. I would not have believed that I would have to say something like this on a TV program. But at the latest, after last week's statements by Donald Trump, it's clear that the Americans, at least this part of the American government, are largely indifferent to Europe's fate. I am very curious about how we will approach the NATO summit at the end of June. Head towards June.
whether we will still be talking about NATO in its current state, or if we need to establish independent European defence capabilities much more quickly. So that has absolute priority for me. And I have absolutely no illusions about what is happening from America. look at what mr elon musk has done recently in terms of interventions in the german elections that is an unprecedented event so the interventions from washington were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately brazen than the interventions we had from moscow still seen so we are under such massive pressure from two sides that my absolute priority now truly is to establish unity in europe
Now, in this next clip, Chancellor Meyers talks about a united Europe that can no longer rely on the United States. He talks about his role leading Germany, a strong Germany that no longer has the United States as an ally or a friend. And Chancellor Maersk continued to reiterate as well that he doesn't know what's even gonna happen in June when there's supposed to be a NATO summit because it clearly seems that Donald Trump, Musk, and JD Vance are pulling the United States out of NATO such that there needs to be a new European Common Defense Alliance. Play this clip.
We, the CDU and the CSU, the union, we won this federal election in 2025. Thank you very much for the trust you have placed in us and in me personally. I am aware of the responsibility. I am also aware of the magnitude of the task that now lies ahead of us. I approach this with the utmost respect, and I know it will not be easy. We led a very tough election campaign. This campaign was nevertheless very necessary, including the debate on the important and major issues of our country, such as economic policy, migration, foreign and security policy, and internal security. But now we will talk with each other, and above all, It is about reestablishing a capable government in Germany as quickly as possible.
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