The populist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany Party, labeled “extremist” by German authorities, wants to build closer ties to President Trump.
BERLIN — It was 1885 when Friedrich Trump first left Bad Dürkheim, in Germany’s western Palatinate region, for the United States. Now, 140 years later, the populist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party wants to make his grandson President Donald Trump an honorary citizen of the district.
Although the symbolic gesture seems likely to fail in a vote by the local council, which is controlled by mainstream conservatives, the attempt to honor the U.S. president is the latest AfD overture to the Trump administration and its supporters. Some AfD members see common cause with Trump and Vice President JD Vance, and their crusade against “wokeism” and antipathy toward migrants.
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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/24/trump-germany-honorary-citizen-afd/
