Episode

US reduces troops in Germany: Is Donald Trump breaking up with Friedrich Merz?!

Podcast: DW Berlin Briefing - Inside German politics
Published: May 8, 2026
Duration seconds: 2078
Processing state: not_requested
Canonical source: https://www.dw.com/en/us-reduces-troops-in-germany-is-donald-trump-breaking-up-with-friedrich-merz/audio-77084012?maca=en-podcast_Berlin_Briefing-42113-xml-mrss
Audio: https://radiodownloaddw-a.akamaihd.net/Events/podcasts/en/42113_podcast_Berlin_Briefing/7EEE90FC_2-podcast-42113-77084012.mp3
JSON: /v1/public/podcasts/dw-berlin-briefing-inside-german-politics-7077761/episodes/us-reduces-troops-in-germany-is-donald-trump-breaking-up-with-friedrich-merz
Markdown: /podcast/dw-berlin-briefing-inside-german-politics-7077761/us-reduces-troops-in-germany-is-donald-trump-breaking-up-with-friedrich-merz.md

Actions

POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dw-berlin-briefing-inside-german-politics-7077761/episodes/us-reduces-troops-in-germany-is-donald-trump-breaking-up-with-friedrich-merz/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/dw-berlin-briefing-inside-german-politics-7077761/us-reduces-troops-in-germany-is-donald-trump-breaking-up-with-friedrich-merz.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

Is the relationship between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US President Donald Trump on the rocks?!. Is the exchange of political fire that saw Merz describe the US as “humiliated” by Iran – and Trump respond with troop withdrawals and tariffs – just a blip? Hosts Nina Haase and Michaela Küfner welcome DW’s Washington Bureau Chief Ines Pohl to analyse Trump’s latest blows against Germany.