Merkel Has Harvard Cheering Attack on Trump's Politics of Deceit [View all]
Source: Bloomberg
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Without ever mentioning the U.S. leader by name, the German chancellor checked off a list of policy issues where she has clashed with Trump -- from trade, to immigration and climate change -- that left her audience in no doubt as to whom she might mean.
When she called on the students and university alumni to "tear down walls" they rose to their feet -- Trump’s 2016 battle cry, of course, was to "build the wall" to keep out immigrants coming across the border with Mexico.
“Tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness, for nothing has to stay as it is,” Merkel said in a speech that drew from her own experience of life behind the Berlin Wall to argue that positive change is possible.
Yet she also warned of the damage done to public life when people treat "lies as truth and truth as lies" and suggested it’s better to stop and think before acting on "first impulses" -- comments that prompted cheers and laughter.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-30/merkel-attacks-trump-s-unilateral-world-view-in-harvard-speech
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