Peter Burghardt

US-Correspondent Süddeutsche Zeitung in Washington, D.C. Vorher/before/antes Madrid, Buenos Aires, Hamburg. Here private/aqui privado/hier privat

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TRUMP: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative from Alabama.

KAITLAN COLLINS: I'm still from Alabama.

[Prof. Karl Lauterbach @Karl_Lauterbach]

Hier kann man sehen, weshalb es die Brandmauer braucht…

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I used to make fun of this kind of thing when reporting in North Korea.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Unia Europejska jest niedoskonała, irytująca, nudna, ale niczego lepszego w naszej historii nie wymyśliliśmy. Czas pokoju, dobrobytu, wolności, demokracji i solidarności między narodami przez wieki walczącymi ze sobą to cud. Niech trwa jak najdłużej.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I love "Only drive downhill whenever possible"

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

The pattern is unmistakable and repulsive.

If you keep calling Black leaders "low IQ," you aren't expressing a political disagreement. You are using a racist dog whistle to undermine their humanity.

Every single time Donald Trump uses this slur, he shows the country that his politics are built entirely on grievance and bigotry. It’s a disgrace to the office and a stain on this country.

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

CBS News: A 33-year-old Cuban man died in ICE custody this week, the 18th detainee death reported by the agency in 2026, according to a notice sent to Congress.

ICE is on track to surpass the two-decade high in detainee deaths reported last year and record a new all time high.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump to Congress, May 1: Hostilities with Iran "have been terminated."

Trump to Florida audience, May 1: "You know we’re in a war."

@EricaLG
https://t.co/mr2LvlyS8g

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump is so disrespectful. He literally cut in front of Queen Camilla while she was shaking hands.

Every day is another embarrassment for our country.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Jimmy Kimmel just pushed back against Melania Trump.

Brilliant!

"I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do, and I think a great place to start, to dial that back, would be to have a conversation with your husband."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..."

Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump??

Zeteo put together a montage:

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel should be canceled. Last week her husband commented on Robert Mueller’s death: “Good. I”m glad he’s dead.”
Said Pretty much the same about my old friend Rob Reiner.
People who live in glass houses should’t throw shit.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Karoline Leavitt, speaking before the WHCA dinner:

“𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 at the room, so everyone should tune in — it’s going to be really great.”

That’s one hell of a coincidence, isn’t it? 😡

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

No better sponsor for a peace prize than Vladimir Putin!🙄

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

"The world is a casino," says the guy who bankrupted three of them. The world is next.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump is reportedly negotiating a deal which would stop Iran from producing a nuclear weapon in exchange for $20 Billion in Iranian assets being unfrozen.

Note that The Iranian Nuclear agreement (JCPOA) that Obama signed, that Trump tore up, did the same thing. It halted their Uranium enrichment while turning over frozen assets.

In other words Trump Tore up the agreement, spent $55 Billion on a war, got hundreds of Americans injured, killed 150+ kids and exploded oil prices to try and negotiate the same basic deal that Obama did.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane comments capped by threatening to wipe out Iran and attacking the pope have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power and revived the debate about Trump's mental health. https://t.co/AZSqGjRwOs

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement.

That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance.

Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did. https://t.co/3wvq6675OV

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

NATO IS NEVER THERE WHEN WE NEED THEM. TRUMP WANTED TO STEAL GREENLAND, DID NATO HELP? NO! TRUMP WANTED TO WIPE OUT AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION, DID NATO HELP? NO! TRUMP DECLARED WAR ON BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, DID NATO HELP? NO!

IF NATO DOESN'T PAY ITS SHARE FOR THE BALLROOM, IT'S OVER.