Hard-right German party tells Trump to tweet less and govern more

The hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which initially embraced Donald Trump and the populism that swept him into office last year, had a message for the U.S. president on Monday - he should tweet less, and govern more.

Alice Weidel, one of the AfD’s top two candidates in the Sept. 24 election in Germany, said Trump’s response to a recent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, had

been “completely unnecessary” and she had only a “limited understanding” for it.

“Donald Trump should focus more on policies and less on tweeting and Twitter,” Weidel told journalists in Berlin. “If I had a wish list, then I would wish that Donald Trump would focus ... more on cleaning up his own house, and being a little more devoted to his governing responsibilities.”

Trump was widely criticized for at first failing to condemn white supremacist groups after a man thought to have neo-Nazi sympathies drove a car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, killing a woman and injuring over a dozen other people. Trump had said “both sides” were to blame for the violence and there were “very fine people” at the rally.

Source:Reuters