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German minister blasts Jeb Bush's America

Tom Barfield
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German minister blasts Jeb Bush's America
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush (l) and German Justice Minister Heiko Maas (r). Photos: DPA

After US presidential candidate Jeb Bush tweeted an image that seemed to equate the American Dream with gun ownership, Germany's Justice Minister struck back with his own image of the USA.

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Jeb Bush's tweet simply read "America." and included a photo of the former Florida governor's personal sidearm, engraved with his name and his office.

Supporters showered the tweet with likes – reaching almost 19,000 by late morning on Wednesday.

But the tweet also turned into a snowballing Twitter row, provoking mass outrage and an outpouring of parody.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas apparently couldn't resist getting involved in the mess, copying Jeb's tweet but replacing the pistol with the Bill of Rights.

It looks like an attempt to show that Germans value America's long history of constitutional democracy more than the nation's - to Europeans - puzzling attachment to machines that put small pieces of metal into other people very fast.

When contacted by The Local, a spokesman for the Berlin Justice Ministry simply said that "the tweet speaks for itself".

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