Controversial remarks by US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump show that the world should be concerned if he is elected president, a spokeswoman for German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Merkel said the chancellor did not wish to interfere in the US election campaign. Throughout his campaign, Trump, a billionaire businessman seeking his first public office, has courted controversy with a string of inflammatory statements about women, Mexicans, Muslims and war veterans, among others. Trump is currently in the firing line after suggesting on Tuesday that gun rights activists could act to stop Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from nominating liberal US Supreme Court justices. Steinmeier is from the centre-left Social Democrats, the junior partner in Merkel's conservative-led ruling coalition.

Source: The Star August 10, 2016 11:48 UTC