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Trump before the election
“Germany wants to get rid of me”: this is how the president of the United States attacked other countries
Donald Trump performing in Reading, Pennsylvania
© Mandel Ngan / AFP
Final flurry in the US election campaign: Donald Trump appeared in front of his supporters in the transitional state of Pennsylvania. There, the American president speculated that several states wanted to get rid of him, including Germany.
Two days before the US elections, Donald Trump and Joe Biden give it their all. Opponents of the US presidency are primarily trying to win votes in so-called swing states, which are likely to decide this race. The US state of Pennsylvania with its 20 electoral votes is particularly fierce. There, in the last elections of 2016, Donald Trump surprisingly beat Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden is now ahead in the polls. But Trump is fighting back and sparking resentment against other states.
“China wants to get rid of me. Iran wants to get rid of me. Germany wants to get rid of me,” the headline said Saturday in Reading, Pennsylvania, at an election rally in front of his supporters. Assume that many countries want to see you lose. He was referring to his “America First” policy, with which he rejected many states, but which, according to him, is for the good of the United States.
With his policies, which include the threat and application of punitive tariffs, Trump has repeatedly tested the relationship with allied states like Germany in the past. Germany’s military spending, the trade deficit with the US, or refugee policy are again and again controversial topics, causing a significant cooling between Washington and Berlin. In August 2018, Trump even described Europeans as “enemies.”
In another speech in Newton, in the same state, Trump put his compatriots in the mood for a potentially long meeting after Tuesday’s election. “The whole world and our country will wait and wait and wait to find out who won, they will wait weeks,” Trump said. “November 3 will come and go and we won’t know. And there will be chaos in our country.” He was referring to postal votes, the validity of which in Pennsylvania depends on the postmark. This means that valid votes could still arrive several days after the election.
Obama criticizes Trump’s policies of chaos
Former US President Barack Obama, meanwhile, tried to score points in an appearance in the equally disputed state of Michigan out of anger at Trump’s failed policy. “We are done with the chaos, the tweets, the anger, the hatred, the failure, the refusal to take any responsibility,” he said, promoting Democrat Joe Biden. He promised his supporters in Detroit that if elected he would be president of all Americans. “Everyone knows who Donald Trump is, let’s show who we are.”
