{"id":31710,"date":"2016-02-19T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31710"},"modified":"2016-02-19T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:20:39","slug":"trump-slams-germanys-merkel-a-catastrophic-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31710","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slams Germany&#8217;s Merkel: A &#8216;Catastrophic Leader&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Sandy Fitzgerald\u00a0<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span>NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Trump - We can&#039;t have an immigration policy like Angela Merkel does in Germany by SiriusXM News &amp; Issues\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F247850513&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a &#8220;catastrophic leader&#8221; who will be &#8220;out if they don&#8217;t have a revolution,&#8221; GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said Friday, while discussing her allowing Muslim refugees to enter her country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;You know, what Merkel has done is incredible, it&#8217;s actually mind boggling,&#8221; Trump told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2016\/02\/19\/donald-trump-predicts-germanys-merkel-will-be-out-if-they-dont-have-a-revolution\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Breitbart<\/b><\/span><\/a> executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon on his Sirius XM Patriot Channel program. &#8220;When you look at Europe, I have friends that live in Germany, they&#8217;re leaving. I have friends that are leaving Germany because of what&#8217;s happened.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It&#8217;s not just Germany, but all of Europe that is a &#8220;total disaster&#8221; because of immigration policies that allow thousands of unvetted people to enter its nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;You look at what&#8217;s going on in Brussels and Sweden and all of these countries, it&#8217;s a total disaster,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;The world is a different place. I don&#8217;t know what people are thinking, but the world is a different place.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And Syrian refugees, he said are &#8220;totally unvetted and nobody knows where they come from.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;You look at the lines where you have so many young strong men, very few women and children by comparison, and you say, what&#8217;s going on here? Why aren&#8217;t they back fighting for their country?&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;We have a real problem. The world is going crazy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The problems in Europe show the need for building a wall along the southern border of the United States and for temporarily banning Muslims from coming in if they are not already citizens or legal residents, Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;My immigration policy is necessary if we&#8217;re going to have a country,&#8221; he told Bannon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p12\"><span class=\"s7\"><span class=\"s8\">&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/trump-slams-germany-angela-merkel\/2016\/02\/19\/id\/715197\/#ixzz40eRf31dQ\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/trump-slams-germany-angela-merkel\/2016\/02\/19\/id\/715197\/#ixzz40eRf31dQ<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}