The German federal government keeps its invitation to Donald Trump in place.
Deputy government spokesman Steffen Meyer told the dts news agency on Friday that the chancellor had already invited the U.S. president on his first visit last year. Meyer could not offer an update on a concrete date, explaining that such dates are normally announced only on the Friday before the arrival week.
When Finance Minister Oliver Merz was in Washington on Tuesday, a reciprocal visit by the U.S. president was not mentioned at the White House press briefing nor in the chancellor’s subsequent statement. During a December visit to Rhineland‑Palatinate, the chancellor said Trump would visit the homeland of his Palatine ancestors in 2026. “The invitation has been extended, and he accepted with great enthusiasm” he said, though he could not yet give a specific date.
Trump’s great‑grandfather emigrated from the Palatinate to the United States in 1885. He later lived in Germany again for a time and even attempted to regain Bavarian citizenship, which ultimately proved unsuccessful.
Trump has repeatedly stressed that he carries “German blood” in his veins. While he has visited German soil several times as U.S. president, including at the G20 summit in Hamburg and at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, he has never made an official state visit to Berlin.