{"id":22214,"date":"2026-05-03T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-war-of-words-with-friedrich-merz-takes-toll-on-us-german-relationship\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:22:12","slug":"trumps-war-of-words-with-friedrich-merz-takes-toll-on-us-german-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-war-of-words-with-friedrich-merz-takes-toll-on-us-german-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s war of words with Friedrich Merz takes toll on US-German relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has repeatedly attacked German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for comments he made about the U.S. role in the Iran war, targeting a leader who has worked hard to be in the president&rsquo;s good graces and a country considered to be one of the U.S.&rsquo;s strongest allies&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5860224-trump-merz-iran-war-feud\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has repeatedly attacked German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for comments he made about the U.S. role in the Iran war, targeting a leader who has worked hard to be in the president&rsquo;s good graces and a country considered to be one of the U.S.&rsquo;s strongest allies&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}