Vice President JD Vance, who had defiantly met with the AfD leader during a visit to Munich in February, drew an analogy to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a triumphant moment that has united Germany and the United States.
He described the AfD, which like Trump has campaigned against immigration, as “the most popular party in Germany.” It came in second in February elections.
“Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition,“ Rubio wrote on X. “That’s not democracy -- it’s tyranny in disguise.”
“What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD -- which took second in the recent election -- but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes,“ Rubio said.
“This is democracy,“ the German Foreign Office said in English-language X response to Rubio.
Such public spats would have been unthinkable under most US administrations.
Trump has sought to use executive authority to deport migrants en masse, rounding up people without waiting for courts and sending some to a crowded, maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
The BfV domestic intelligence agency, which had already designated several local AfD branches as right-wing extremist groups, said it decided to give the entire party the label due to its attempts to “undermine the free, democratic” order in Germany.
The Trump administration has also defended French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who was banned from standing for office after being convicted over misuse of European Parliament expenses.
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