Behind the Palatinate town of Kallstadt lies a rare year without speculation about a possible visit from Donald Trump. Most of the people in the Weinort shouldn’t have missed the topic.
Kallstadt – The mayor of the Palatinate municipality of Kallstadt, from whom Donald Trump’s ancestors came from on his father’s side, has enjoyed the quiet since the US president was voted out a year ago. “In any case, I haven’t been bored in the past few months,” said Thomas Jaworek of the German Press Agency.
As the “German home of Donald Trump”, the wine town of Kallstadt has been in the focus of international media since the Republican’s victory in the US presidential election in 2016. During Trump’s tenure there was repeatedly speculation about whether the head of state would visit his ancestors’ place of origin in Germany.
“That was speculation outside of Kallstadt and less in the village,” Jaworek emphasized. If Trump had come, he would have been followed in the footsteps of his family “like any other descendant of emigrants”. “For him there wouldn’t really be much to see that still reminds of his family,” said the CDU politician. There were never any efforts to put up information boards on his grandparents’ birthplace. “For today’s residents, any tourist who takes a photo may still be a burden.”
The father of the ketchup manufacturer Henry John Heinz also originally comes from Kallstadt. “The US politician John Kerry is married to a born Heinz and is the President’s Special Envoy for the Climate. Trump and Kerry: The contrast in terms of climate protection couldn’t be greater, ”said Jaworek. An exchange about Kallstadt’s sustainability strategy, for example, would in any case attract him more with Kerry than with Trump.
The mayor said that Trump was assigned chances for a new term in office in Kallstadt. He added with a wink: “Then we still have three years until he is back in office – or three years with regular inquiries about how I see the matter. I have experience with that. ”Dpa
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