{"id":11071,"date":"2026-06-16T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:27:00","slug":"g7-merz-gave-trump-a-german-national-team-jersey-with-his-name-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11071","title":{"rendered":"G7: Merz gave Trump a German national team jersey with his name on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A timely<b> surprise gift <\/b>was in store from the chancellor<b> Friedrich Merz<\/b> for the <b>U.S. president<\/b>, who celebrated his <b>80th birthday<\/b> a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the <strong>Group of Seven (G7) summit in Evian<\/strong>, Mr. <strong>Merz <\/strong>presented <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> a<strong> jersey from the German national soccer team<\/strong>, as it competes in the ongoing World Cup, with the name \u201c<strong>Trump<\/strong>\u201d on the back and the number <strong>\u201c47,\u201d <\/strong>since Mr. Trump is the<strong> 47th president of the United States.<\/strong> The chancellor had, however, already sent his best wishes to the American president via<strong> a handwritten card, <\/strong>which was delivered to the White House in time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Flirting with Trump is certainly never a mistake, <\/strong>but it doesn\u2019t change the balance of power. Germany should continue to tread carefully in the transatlantic partnership,\u201d political scientist <strong>Benjamin Henne told <b>BILD <\/b>,<\/strong>commenting on Chancellor Merz\u2019s attempt to normalize his relationship with the U.S. president, which <strong>had been disrupted<\/strong>when the former criticized the U.S. attack on Iran, prompting Donald Trump to respond in a <strong>derogatory tone.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Friedrich Merz had a timely surprise gift in store for the U.S. president, who celebrated his 80th birthday a few days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}