Trump assaults Merz for criticizing Iran: “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about” | EUROtoday

As of: April 29, 2026 • 1:46 a.m

Chancellor Merz criticized the USA for going into the Iran conflict with out a technique. Now US President Trump shoots again: Merz would not know what he is speaking about. It is not any marvel that Germany is doing so badly.

US President Donald Trump has rejected Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s criticism of the Iran conflict and massively attacked it verbally. “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Trump wrote, referring to Merz, on his Truth Social platform. It’s no marvel “that Germany is doing so badly, both economically and in other respects.”

He accused the Chancellor of agreeing that Iran had nuclear weapons and praised his personal actions. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, the whole world can be beneath its management. “I’m doing something about Iran that other nations or presidents should have done long ago,” Trump stated.

Merz criticized the shortage of an exit technique

Merz stated on Monday at a college occasion in North Rhine-Westphalia with a view to the United States that “an entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian government.” The Chancellor additionally stated that “the Americans obviously have no strategy.” The drawback with such conflicts is all the time: “You don’t just have to get in there, you also have to get out again.”

Trump had beforehand criticized different European leaders for not desirous to be drawn into the conflict in opposition to Iran. It shouldn’t be clear why the US President claims that the Chancellor spoke out in favor of Iran having nuclear weapons. It shouldn’t be recognized that Merz ever made such an announcement.

Scholz: Relationship with the USA can deal with it

Former Chancellor Olaf Scholz reacted calmly to Trump’s verbal assault in opposition to his successor Merz. “I am convinced that transatlantic cooperation can withstand that we have different views,” stated the SPD politician in New York. Differences don’t have to result in poorer cooperation.

With info from Carsten Kühntopp, ARD Studio Washington