Herr Merz Is a Putz

Holy smokes.

DIS GUY

Friedrich Merz, the skeletal, pathetic stick figure who somehow is still chancellor of Germany, cannot manage to go an entire week without getting out of the way of his own big mouth.

This week, he was the subject of a vaguely sympathetic portrait of a stumbling, but well-meaning oaf in Politico.

Merz’s comeback tour descends into shambles

The chancellor’s attempts to revive his flagging popularity are backfiring

As Friedrich Merz’s popularity plunges to new lows — compounding his already-weak coalition’s troubles little more than a year into office — the chancellor is traveling the country to persuade Germans that things remain on the right track.

It’s not going well. Instead, Merz looks like he is only compounding his problems, often appearing out of touch and further alienating some of the very voters he can least afford to lose.

They rehashed his tart-mouthed encounter with a woman who had cancer, and his bumbling efforts to convince German industrial leaders to hang in there. Being Politico, Trump and the ‘fallout from the Iran war’ got credit for making Merz’s job hard, when, in fact, for all of last year, it was Merz making Merz’s job hard.

…Part of Merz’s problem is that he came into office promising his government would turn things around rapidly. In his first parliamentary speech after taking office, Merz vowed that Germans would start to feel the country was changing “for the better” by last summer.

Instead, the fallout of the Iran war and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have only exacerbated the German economy’s structural problems, leading the government to slash growth forecasts.

Merz now seems to admit he set expectations unrealistically high. Asked in a public television interview last week what the biggest mistake of his first year in office was, Merz replied: “Perhaps being too impatient.”

Oh, okay. Merz’s problem is that he dreams too big.

No, his problem is he’s been full of it from the beginning (Witness my first ever post on the new Chancellor), and he’s a huge squish no one respects.

At the end of April, the man who had tried to style himself as a European leader because of his ‘Trump whispering’ skills stepped in a pile of scheiße during what he thought was an off-the-record moment at a school event.

The US is being “humiliated” by Iranian leaders as President Trump struggles to negotiate an end to the war, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday (translation via AP) https://t.co/x4hz7GQJ56 pic.twitter.com/cDr1bQ3Ec9

— Bloomberg (@business) April 27, 2026

He was summarily blasted back into such a quivering pile of pudding by President Trump that it’s taken a couple of weeks for the timid creature to reemerge.

And he immediately stepped it in again.

I don’t know if it was the pretty girl onstage with him or all the admiring young faces in the audience, but Herr Chancellor let his mouth and ego get the better of what little judgment I guess he has.

Merz once again proves the point: every time he grabs a microphone, he makes things worse. At this rate, silence would be his best foreign policy tool.

— Walter Piñeiro (@w_pineiro) May 15, 2026

And just like snappy at the poor lady with cancer, Merz is wrong here again, besides being terribly rude.

Chancellor “Just Poking You” has been taking jabs at US repeatedly now.
My 7th sense says he is looking to stay relevant as a “world leader” as Pres. Trump has been eclipsing them all on the world stage.

— Dimitri A. (@DAgosion) May 15, 2026

…*The German unemployment rate is 6.4%—much higher than the US*

The German economy has also been in or near recession for five years.

What is this guy smoking?

And I am supposing that word of Merz’s little chat with those Catholics in Wuerzburg hadn’t hit the wire services yet, which is how he managed to report a nice phone chat with President Trump this afternoon.

…Shortly after Merz made his critical US remarks on Friday, he said in a message on the social network X that he had a good phone call with Trump and that both leaders agreed “Iran must come to the negotiating table now. It must open the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.”

The chancellor added that he and Trump also discussed their positions on a peaceful solution for Ukraine in preparation for the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara.

“The USA and Germany are strong partners in a strong NATO,” he said.

I can’t wait for Trump to get cleaned up and rested from his China jaunt for the next explosion to happen when he hears about this one.

One German analyst says Merz is a flat-out foreign policy risk. Why?

Because the dumbkopf canNOT keep his mouth shut.

BREAKING NIUS: Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz sucht offenbar die totale Eskalation mit US-Präsident Donald Trump und rät nun offen von Aufenthalten in den USA ab. Merz wörtlich: “Ich bin ein großer Bewunderer Amerikas. Meine Bewunderung nimmt im Augenblick nicht zu. Ich würde… pic.twitter.com/wkG7HmxE9H

— Julian Reichelt (@jreichelt) May 15, 2026

BREAKING NIUS: Chancellor Friedrich Merz is apparently seeking total escalation with US President Donald Trump and is now openly advising against stays in the USA. Merz literally: “I am a great admirer of America. My admiration is not growing at the moment. I would not recommend to my children to go to the USA, to be educated there, and to work there, because a social climate has suddenly developed there.” 

The Chancellor is visibly lacking any impulse control. Merz has now also become an incalculable risk for our country in foreign policy.

Germans are embarrassed.

🇩🇪🇺🇸This behavior is unfounded, undiplomatic, and foolish in light of transatlantic relations.
A chancellor who can’t get a handle on illegal mass migration and the resulting crime in his own country.
And above all, it’s utter nonsense that Germans shouldn’t travel to America… pic.twitter.com/3LmiEWZvUF

— The Lector (@TheXLector) May 15, 2026

…And above all, it’s utter nonsense that Germans shouldn’t travel to America anymore because of a certain social climate. 

There’s no civil war there, and no rejection of Germans.

Once again, sensationalist, boastful words have been spoken. 

This chancellor is damaging Germany’s reputation in America and before the entire world. 

This chancellor does NOT speak for me and many like-minded Germans!

Lots to brag about in Germany, sinking under the weight of foreigners and infrastructure.

🇩🇪🔴Foreigner children began spitting on her dog, says a Berlin woman who tried walking through a Friedrichshain park.

“Here you go as a German person, yeah, looking a bit tattooed, looking a bit crazy, just walking with the dog, that’s what a park is for actually.”

“But… pic.twitter.com/qFG06PrjTf

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 15, 2026

…”But you’re being looked at like sh*t by our foreign colleagues here. There are hardly any Germans here. The children come running to the dog and want to spit on him with a straw.”

German city parks are increasingly smoked-filled grill pits with hundreds of foreigners cooking out.

If Merz is really that concerned about a certain deleterious ‘social climate taking hold,’ he might want to look outside for a minute before he hops in his government-provided ride.

🇩🇪🔴”I’m leaving Germany.”

Famous German Youtuber “Radical Living” with 2 million followers explains why he is leaving his country.

“Once you have children, you also think about where you want to raise them, especially if you have a daughter. I don’t think Germany is a good… pic.twitter.com/GQQQvxgUs5

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 12, 2026

…”You don’t have to take it from me; there are public petitions in all major German cities. Women want vouchers for free taxi rides at night, and in Berlin, they want women-only subway wagons. The stories you hear about what women have to endure in Berlin public transport are just messed up.”

“If a woman can’t walk down the street at night and feel safe, you have failed as a society. It’s ridiculous that every time something happens, politicians just say we have a ‘knife problem’ or suggest women should dress differently.“

“You can also see the decline in small things. You can’t go to the supermarket anymore without feeling like we’re living in a crime-polluted society.“

‘Even in Prenzlauer Berg, one of the best neighborhoods in Berlin, you go into a drugstore like DM and have to ask the cashier to unlock basic products like shampoo or cream because they get stolen so much. Even in a normal supermarket like Edeka, they are locking up alcohol and Red Bulls—things that cost only €1.50—with security tags. What kind of society is this becoming?”

“Radical Living” also cites Christmas markets.

“Last year, several were canceled because they couldn’t afford the ‘terror defense’ anymore. It costs millions of euros to put those barriers up. If Christmas markets—a place of joy that people look forward to in December—get canceled because they can’t afford terror defense, many things have gone wrong in this country.“…

BECAUSE A SOCIAL CLIMATE HAS SUDDENLY DEVELOPED THERE

And maybe stay away from a microphone for a week or so.

Putz.

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