Trump praises AfD election victory in Saxony-Anhalt and uses “MGGA” slogan

US President Donald Trump praises the AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt. "Wow! The populist party in Germany just had a really big evening," Trump wrote on his online platform Truth Social. He attributed the AfD's election victory to German immigration policy. Voters would no longer put up with the “absolutely terrible immigration rules and regulations that have caused severe damage to Germany.” Based on “Make America Great Again,” he added the acronym “MGGA,” adapted from Germany.

Shortly after the election results were announced, prominent representatives of the MAGA movement around Trump celebrated the AfD's success. “Well done!”, entrepreneur Elon Musk commented on a post by AfD chairwoman Alice Weidel, in which she congratulated top candidate Ulrich Siegmund on her triumph in Saxony-Anhalt. Musk had already promoted the AfD when he was still a close advisor to the US President.

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The US ambassador Richard Grenell, who was previously stationed in Berlin and who, like Musk, has close ties to Trump, also congratulated the AfD. “A great victory and a new day in Germany,” he wrote on social networks. As a diplomat in Berlin, Grenell had repeatedly attracted attention with polarizing statements and was considered controversial.