Merkel Has Harvard Cheering Attack on Trump's Politics of Deceit

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4. she is a fighter!

..........The crowd sprawled out on the university campus embraced the chancellor as the antithesis of Trump-era politics, applauding when she pledged climate neutrality by 2050 -- even though she’s pilloried at home for missing targets.

Merkel, who says she won’t run again when her current term ends in 2021 at the latest, was aiming to burnish her legacy. She denies seeking another political office, including heading one of the European Union institutions, said Thursday that her post-chancellorship future is “completely open.”

Merkel joins a list of prominent commencement speakers in recent years, from Facebook Inc. co-founder and Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg to “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling and television host Oprah Winfrey. Last year’s address was given by U.S. civil rights pioneer and U.S. Representative John Lewis.