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Trump praised AfD’s win in Saxony-Anhalt as Der Spiegel highlights political ties
According to Der Spiegel, the US president publicly welcomed AfD’s election victory in Saxony-Anhalt. The outlet also pointed to strategic and ideological overlap between Trump’s movement and the German far right.
Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to celebrate AfD’s election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, echoing his own campaign slogan and criticizing Germany’s immigration rules. Der Spiegel reported that the message made his alignment with the far-right German party unusually clear.
The magazine said links between the MAGA movement and AfD have existed for some time, with both sides sharing broad political goals. Among the similarities it listed were a strong focus on migrants as a political target, attacks on established parties and opposition to the liberal order.
According to Der Spiegel, Ulrich Siegmund’s campaign in Saxony-Anhalt also showed visible borrowing from Trump-style political tactics and narratives. The outlet pointed in particular to doubts cast on judicial independence, warnings about alleged election manipulation and appeals to an idealized Germany of the past portrayed as safer and better than the present.
Der Spiegel framed those issues in a new episode of its political podcast Mad Kings, hosted by Britta Sandberg and Christoph Hickmann, which also examines the possible consequences of that relationship for democracy in Germany.
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About this piece. Written by El Notero with AI assistance, from reporting published by the outlet cited above. El Notero did no original reporting on this story.
