Donald Trump has accused Angela Merkel of allowing immigrants to “violently” change Germany’s culture, lashing out at the beleaguered chancellor even as he faces international outcry for separating children from migrant parents at the US border.
Mr Trump’s swipe at Ms Merkel, which included an incorrect assertion that crime was “way up” in Germany, is the latest in a series of feuds he has picked with Berlin and comes as the chancellor is struggling to quell a revolt within her own coalition over whether to harden immigration policies.
“The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition,” Mr Trump wrote on Twitter. “Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”