{"id":34189,"date":"2025-02-23T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/trump-celebrates-conservative-party-win-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:22:44","slug":"trump-celebrates-conservative-party-win-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/trump-celebrates-conservative-party-win-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump celebrates conservative party win in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> celebrated on Sunday after German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory in a national election, ousting Social Democrat incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LOOKS LIKE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN GERMANY HAS WON THE VERY BIG AND HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ELECTION,&#8221; Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. &#8220;MUCH LIKE THE USA, THE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE OF GERMANY<\/a> GOT TIRED OF THE NO COMMON SENSE AGENDA, ESPECIALLY ON ENERGY AND IMMIGRATION, THAT HAS PREVAILED FOR SO MANY YEARS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR GERMANY, AND FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF A GENTLEMAN NAMED DONALD J. TRUMP,&#8221; he added. &#8220;CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL \u2014 MANY MORE VICTORIES TO FOLLOW!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won Sunday&#8217;s national election, with the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) finishing a strong second, according to exit polls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-set-meet-world-leaders-dc-busy-week-russia-ukraine-peace-talks-continue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP SET TO MEET WITH WORLD LEADERS IN DC DURING BUSY WEEK AS RUSSIA-UKRAINE PEACE TALKS CONTINUE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/conservative-candidate-pulls-ahead-german-election-according-early-exit-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snap election<\/a> came as the European nation grapples with illegal immigration and a souring economy. CDU leader Merz is expected to take a harder line than Scholz on immigration, though not as much as AfD supporters have called for.<\/p>\n<p>Merz, whose party got about 29% of the vote, must form a coalition with one or more of the other parties, but has said he will not do so with AfD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/economy-immigration-elon-musk-center-german-election-conservative-candidate-favorite-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ECONOMY, IMMIGRATION, ELON MUSK AT CENTER OF GERMAN ELECTION; CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FAVORED TO WIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merz has said he will execute a 15-point plan to tackle immigration, including tightening the borders and deporting rejected asylum seekers. AfD wants to deport migrants en masse.<\/p>\n<p>While the AfD may be frozen out of the incoming coalition, it doubled its vote total from the last election.<\/p>\n<p>Endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk, and led by Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, the party believes it has built momentum for the next election, expected in 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump celebrated on Sunday after German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory in a national election, ousting Social Democrat incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz. &#8220;LOOKS LIKE THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN GERMANY HAS WON THE VERY BIG AND HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ELECTION,&#8221; Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. &#8220;MUCH LIKE THE USA, THE &#8230; <a title=\"Trump celebrates conservative party win in Germany\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/trump-celebrates-conservative-party-win-in-germany\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump celebrates conservative party win in Germany\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}