{"id":21165,"date":"2026-01-19T19:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21165"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:28:37","slug":"germanys-far-right-loosens-its-embrace-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21165","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s far right loosens its embrace of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has long sought close ties to the Trump administration in its quest for powerful international allies and an end to its political isolation at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as public sentiment in Germany increasingly turns against U.S. President Donald Trump and his foreign interventionism \u2014&nbsp;in particular his talk of taking control of Greenland and his seizure of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u2014 AfD leaders are recalibrating, putting distance between their party and a U.S. president they previously embraced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe has violated a fundamental election promise, namely not to interfere in other countries, and he has to explain that to his own voters,\u201d Alice Weidel, one of the AfD\u2019s national leaders, said earlier this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-donald-trump-afd-greenland-nicolas-maduro-national-rally\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-donald-trump-afd-greenland-nicolas-maduro-national-rally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has long sought close ties to the Trump administration in its quest for powerful international allies and an end to its political isolation at home.<br \/>\nBut as public sentiment in Germany increasingly turns against U.S. President Donald Trump and his foreign interventionism \u2014 in particular his talk of taking control of Greenland and his seizure of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro \u2014 AfD leaders are recalibrating, putting distance between their party and a U.S. president they previously embraced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has violated a fundamental election promise, namely not to interfere in other countries, and he has to explain that to his own voters,\u201d Alice Weidel, one of the AfD\u2019s national leaders, said earlier this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-donald-trump-afd-greenland-nicolas-maduro-national-rally\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,728,272,355,727,1801,314,131,509,1146,170,741],"class_list":["post-21165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-germany","tag-greenland","tag-international-relations","tag-party","tag-politics","tag-right-wing","tag-trump","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21166,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21165\/revisions\/21166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}