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Kid Berwyn

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Fri Jun 6, 2025, 09:14 AM Jun 2025

Trump Says Germany Being Liberated From Nazis Was "Not a Great Day" [View all]

Trump really feels sorry for the NAZIs on D-Day.



Trump Says Germany Being Liberated From Nazis Was “Not a Great Day”

Donald Trump made the deranged comment in a meeting with the German chancellor.


by Edith Olmstead
The New Republic, June 5, 2025

Does Donald Trump think that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is a Nazi?

During a press conference with Merz Thursday, Trump seemed confused when the foreign leader brought up the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, when U.S. troops landed on the beaches in Normandy during World War II, on June 6, 1944. The military operation marked a significant turning point in the war against the Nazis.

“That was not a pleasant day for you?” Trump asked Merz. The U.S. president then turned to the press, adding, “This was not a great day!”

“No, that was not a pleasant—well, but in the long run, Mr. President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship,” Merz said, as the U.S. president laughed.

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This strange remark is yet another installment of the president’s sympathetic ideas about Nazis. Last month, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump suggested that some Nazi soldiers had treated their Jewish prisoners with “love.” Trump also infamously claimed that Hitler had done “some good things.”

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https://newrepublic.com/post/196201/donald-trump-germany-d-day-not-great

There are few words that adequately describe Trump, "Traitor" being the first I would use in front of children.

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