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Max Mustermann on Nostr: Germany’s top propagandists had worn themselves out attacking the New Yorker. [On ...


Germany’s top propagandists had worn themselves out attacking the New Yorker. [On the cover of] Klaus Brinkbäumer’s "Spiegel", Trump beheaded Lady Liberty. Great poets such as Karl Doemens, Jakob Augstein, Georg Restle, and Stefan Kornelius developed their own “Trump genre,” denouncing how the U.S. president was allowing the process of “refeudalization, the erosion of civil society’s achievements, and cultural backwardness in the background” to unfold.

None of it did any good. Even during the days of the great tariff wars, when the anxiety machines in Hamburg, Berlin, and Munich were running at full throttle and the hate preachers of staunch anti-Americanism were egging each other on to peak performances of mob journalism, Europe’s heavy artillery turned out to be nothing more than confetti cannons. They were all loaded with soggy paper scraps.

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The End of a Restless Era

As if turned off with a slider, an era in which every sentence uttered by the president generated a myriad of sensational headlines has come to an end. Since early 2025, the attention German media outlets have devoted to Donald Trump has dropped by two-thirds. Compared to the level of interest surrounding his reelection, the decline amounts to three-quarters. Measured against “Peak Trump”—which in Germany coincided with the storming of the Capitol in Washington—the decline amounts to as much as four-fifths.

The blazing hatred for Donald Trump, which for a decade served as the lifeblood of an industry for which the time spent as personal guardians of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel was the best of their lives, has dimmed. Only a pathetic flicker remains of the blazing flames that were supposed to consume Trump. Instead of hysterically declaring every statement the president makes on his own network, Truth Social, to be the cause of all the world’s woes, posts from the White House are now merely acknowledged with a shrug.



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