Overview
- AfD lawmakers hosted Stefano Forte, head of the New York Young Republican Club linked to Trump’s MAGA movement, for a talk in the Bundestag in Berlin.
- Organizer Markus Frohnmaier said the AfD and MAGA share core views on migration and social policy, while Forte called the parties “natural friends” and urged the CDU/CSU to drop their firewall against the AfD.
- Alice Weidel, who leads the AfD’s Bundestag group, recently asked colleagues to cut back US trips and contacts, reflecting concern over optics during tensions tied to US actions in Venezuela, the Greenland dispute, and strikes on Iran.
- The AfD group confirmed prior transatlantic activity, including a €35,000 subsidy this month for the Alliance of Sovereign Nations conference in Washington where Trump‑aligned groups gathered and Frohnmaier spoke.
- WELT reported that a US State Department adviser, David Goldman, observed the Berlin event without comment, and analysts noted the party’s restraint may aim to protect prospects in September’s Saxony‑Anhalt state election.