Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump drew an “unusually confrontational” response from the German foreign ministry, Politico reported last week, after Trump misrepresented the progress of Germany’s energy transition during his debate with Democratic nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
The trans-Atlantic tiff began with Trump’s claim “that Germany’s shift away from fossil fuels had failed, and that the Germans ‘were back to building normal energy plants’,” Politico reports. The remark was one of what CNN called “a staggering quantity and variety of false claims” from Trump during the 90-minute debate September 10.
Over that same time, the network said its preliminary count had Harris making one outright false statement, “though she also added some claims that were misleading or lacking in key context.”
It was after Trump’s comment on the Germany’s power grid that some of the country’s diplomats “flipped out,” Politico says.
“Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables. And we are shutting down—not building—coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest,” the foreign ministry wrote on social media.
“PS: We also don’t eat cats and dogs,” the foreign ministry added, a reference...
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