Donald Trump, Mike Pence and John Bolton – best known for their “erratic and aggressive” traits – are a “toxic mixture” that leaves Europe less secure, a reputable German MP has warned.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government hoped that it could quietly wait for the Trump administration to end, but that was “a bitter illusion,” Jurgen Trittin, former minister for the environment and now a prominent Green Party MP, argued in an op-ed for Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.
The sitting US administration combines the erratic destructiveness of Donald Trump with the neoconservative aggression of Pence and Bolton.
The German politician proceeded to up the ante: “This is a toxic mixture, it endangers Europe’s security.”
Nearly two-thirds of Germans say Trump is more dangerous than Putin.
In support of his claim, Trittin listed a number of important accords that were derailed or abandoned by the US, including the Paris climate change agreement, the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and – most recently – the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Treaties aside, Trump also quit UNESCO, citing the UN body’s ‘anti-Israel stance.’
