Trump Faces Brutal Ridicule from German Government for False Debate Claims

On Wednesday, the German Foreign Ministry carried out a brutal fact-check that confirmed Trump’s false claims made during the debate that Germany had backed away from its efforts to promote renewable energy sources.

During Tuesday’s presidential debate with Kamala Harris, Trump stated:

Like many of Trump’s claims, this one could have been explained with a simple Google search. After Russia cut gas supplies to Germany following its invasion of Ukraine, Germany had to increase its use of coal-fired power plants to bolster its energy supply. But the country has not — and will not — abandon its investment in renewable energy, as Trump suggests. In fact, Russia’s war has led Germany to accelerate your investment.

The German Foreign Ministry attempted to correct the information in a post on X, in which it also addressed Trump’s racist lie about Haitian immigrants eating human pets.

“Whether we like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with over 50% renewable energy,” the agency wrote on its English-language X account. “And we are closing — not building — coal and nuclear power plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest. P.S. We also don’t eat cats and dogs. #Debate2024.”

When Harris told Trump during the debate that world leaders were laughing at him, I imagine that was the kind of mockery she was talking about.

As The Washington Post noted, a spokesman for the German Ministry of Economics and Climate Action said on Wednesday he was “very surprised” by Trump’s statement that Germany had returned to “building normal power plants,” adding: “I don’t know what the presidential candidate has in mind.”

From his bizarre diatribes on wind power to his idiocies about rising sea levels, Trump’s environmental ignorance has been in the spotlight this election cycle. That he’s receiving public corrections from the German government is no surprise.

This article was originally published on MSNBC.com