Correspondent in Berlin
In the famous Madame Tussauds museum, on Unter den Linden avenue, the Berlin equivalent of Grévin, the statue of Donald Trump rests in a trash can in the middle of the refuse in front of a cardboard Trump Tower.
One of the two panels, decorated with the emblem of Twitter, the fallen president's favorite communication tool, announces: “
You are fired!
" (you are fired).
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The staging had been put together a few days before the election, as if to better symbolize Germany's eagerness to throw the former billionaire into the dustbin of history, he who is hated by an overwhelming majority of Germans.
This aspiration is diplomatically summed up in the wishes of a “
new start
” addressed by Angela Merkel's government to Joe Biden.
“I wish her luck and success with all my heart
,” the Chancellor wrote.
With the exception of the AfD, the entire political class welcomes Trump's departure.
No European capital, more than Berlin, was so
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