AfD European politician Krah sees Trump as an inspiration and role model

The AfD MEP Maximilian Krah sees former US President Donald Trump as an inspiration and role model and also compares himself to the Republican presidential candidate. When asked whether he takes Trump as a role model, Krah said in an interview with local broadcaster Sachsen Fernsehen that everyone has to go their own way, "but that Trump encourages me and that there are many things where you can say, now let's do it like Trump, without question".

"I am Donald Trump"

With regard to political campaigns, Krah called Trump a role model and he went even further: "You have two ways you can practice and sell right-wing politics. You have Giorgia Meloni and you have Donald Trump. Now you can ask yourself, am I Giorgia Meloni or am I Donald Trump? I am Donald Trump." Krah shared the interview, which was tiled "German Trump?" on the YouTube channel of "Sachsen Fernsehen", on his social media channels.

He is not a copy and does not walk around wearing a Trump cap. "But it's about being inspired. I believe that Donald Trump is an inspiration." Krah called the Republican a model that should be studied and from whom we can also learn a lot. "Be it that we learn: clear language, clear content and not to be intimidated."

Non-attached Member of the EU Parliament

Krah was one of 15 AfD politicians elected to the new EU Parliament in June. He was also previously a Member of Parliament there. However, he was excluded from the new AfD delegation. He is also not a member of the joint parliamentary group of far-right parties that the AfD had formed. The background to this was, among other things, constant negative headlines about the Saxon during the election campaign and dissatisfaction within the party leadership over sometimes shrill public appearances. In an Italian newspaper, he had made statements about the National Socialist SS that were perceived as relativizing. As a result, other right-wing parties, including France's Rassemblement National led by Marine Le Pen in the EU Parliament, excluded the AfD from their joint parliamentary group.

Back in the Saxony election campaign

Ahead of the state elections in Saxony in a month's time, Krah is now back in full swing, at least in his home state, making campaign appearances and also going on the offensive again on his social media channels. According to Der Spiegel, this is not a problem for co-leader Alice Weidel. Krah's appearances are the decision of his Saxon state association and are therefore "completely acceptable", according to those closest to her. In Saxony, the AfD was recently in first place in an Infratest survey with 30 percent, just ahead of the CDU with 29 percent.