US President Trump’s newly intimate mode of welcoming foreign politicians has become a cause for concern in some quarters. In Washington, leading Democrats have accused Trump of giving French President Macron a Russian “fraternal kiss”, a traditional form of greeting among the statesmen of Communist countries.
Such kisses, critics contend, should be taken as further evidence of Trump’s close ties to Moscow
American President Donald Trump accidentally fired himself via Twitter this week. The trigger was a television interview given by his former senior advisor Steve Bannon. Continue reading
Germany’s federal government has announced its plan to create its own version of the French Foreign Legion. Continue reading
New York’s Trump Tower has become a Mecca for female supporters of the President-Elect. Visitors have been arriving from all over the world. And among the accents one hears these days in line is from Dresden in Saxony. Continue reading
American President Obama is exiting his presidency with a bang. He has ordered the immediate establishment of “air bridges” for refugees from Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yemen. Continue reading
The Republican Party primary contest in the USA has clearly spun out of control. In a violent fit of temper, Donald Trump has arranged to have his main opponent Ted Cruz kidnapped. Trump announced that he won’t back down. Continue reading
The second in command of Germany’s right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party, Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Storch, Duchess of Oldenburg, accidentally shot a tax dodger yesterday. She is inconsolable. Yet the damage has been done. Her boss, Frauke Petry, was the victim’s girlfriend. Continue reading
Germany’s leading tabloid newspaper, Bild, has discovered that the head of the Thuringian branch of the Alternative for Germany party, Björn Höcke, has only one testicle. Unlike the famous case of Hitler, however, Höcke’s lack is not natural. Continue reading
Turkish President Erdogan lost his nerve and bent to the will of Russian President Putin by accepting an invitation to meet at Yalta in Crimea. Continue reading
