Chancellor Merkel’s German-Harvard Axis Attacks President Trump’s America

German Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered all the Pavlovian anti-Trump dog whistles. She talked about walls and climate change. She mentioned gun violence and multilateralism. She referred to free trade and globalism. And she condemned nationalism and isolationism.

Checking off the liberal agenda, the only line she omitted was sharply rebuking “the deplorables.”

Taking yet another bow on the world stage in an interminable goodbye tour, she promises to step down as German chancellor in 2021. Speaking at Harvard University’s 368th Commencement, she hit all the left-leaning notes for her well-heeled crowd of global elites. Simultaneously addressing the mainstream media and foreign policy establishment, Merkel curried favor with the global progressives who have anointed her “the leader of the Free World” — or, as Time magazine preferred “Chancellor of the Free World” — in their petty efforts to snub President Donald J. Trump.

Just as she was warmly received by the those gathered at Harvard’s pompously branded Tercentenary Theatre, Merkel must have been thrilled by the fawning media reception. The Boston Globe headlined: “At Harvard, a not-so-veiled rebuke of Trump by Angela Merkel.” The New York Times proclaimed: “Merkel rebukes Trump’s world view in all but name.” Politico declared: “Merkel takes aim at Trump in ‘tear down walls’ speech.”

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