{"id":72892,"date":"2026-04-30T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-doubles-down-on-rift-with-germanys-chancellor\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:58:32","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-doubles-down-on-rift-with-germanys-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-doubles-down-on-rift-with-germanys-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president doubles down on rift with Germany\u2019s chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump also said he may consider pulling US troops from bases in Italy and Spain, after being prompted by rightwing reporter \u2013 key US politics stories from Thursday 30 April<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has again lashed out at Germany\u2019s chancellor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/friedrich-merz\">Friedrich Merz<\/a>, saying he should focus on \u201cfixing his broken country\u201d and trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 and spend less time \u201cinterfering\u201d in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s latest outburst came a day after he suggested the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">US military<\/a> presence in Germany was being reviewed, with a \u201cpossible reduction\u201d of troops under consideration. Then on Thursday, the president was baited into saying he may consider withdrawing troops from other US bases in Europe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/30\/trump-news-at-a-glance-latest-updates-today\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump also said he may consider pulling US troops from bases in Italy and Spain, after being prompted by rightwing reporter \u2013 key US politics stories from Thursday 30 April Donald Trump has again lashed out at Germany\u2019s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, saying he should focus on \u201cfixing his broken country\u201d and trying to end the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: president doubles down on rift with Germany\u2019s chancellor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-doubles-down-on-rift-with-germanys-chancellor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: president doubles down on rift with Germany\u2019s chancellor\">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-72892","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\/72892","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=72892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}