Donald Trump has attacked Angela Merkel on Twitter, saying: “the people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition”.
It is not the first time that the US President has criticized the German government. During the US Presidential campaign in 2016, Trump called Merkel’s decision to keep the country’s borders open to Syrian refugees in 2015 “insane”.
“Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!” added Trump.
The president continued his attack on Germany through a second tweet saying: “We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!”
“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!” he added in his latest tweet.
According to recent figures, crime levels in Germany have reached a 30-year low.
Trump’s Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) attack comes as Merkel faces a two-week deadline to find a European solution to immigration curbs.
She said on Monday at a press conference held in Berlin: “CDU and CSU have a joint goal of better-regulating migration into our country and considerably reduce the number of people who arrive here so that a situation like the one we had in the year 2015 cannot and won’t happen again.”
“In the CDU we are of the conviction that German and European interests have to be considered together,” she added.
The German President warned at the press conference on Monday that turning away migrants at German borders could have “negative domino effects that would also harm Germany”.
Migration is expected to be an important discussion point at the upcoming European Council meeting on 28 and 29 June.