German Chancellor Scholz tweets image of himself with black eye patch after jogging accident

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday tweeted a pirate-style image of himself with a black eye patch and dark-red bruises on the best aspect of his face — the results of a jogging accident on the weekend.

“Am excited to see the memes,” the chancellor wrote within the caption.

To deflect any doable worries about his well being, on the picture, which seems to have been taken on the chancellery, Scholz smiled barely and in addition wrote: “Thanks for the well wishes, it looks worse than it is!”

Scholz fell whereas jogging on Saturday and sustained bruises to his face, prompting him to cancel some appointments this weekend, the federal government mentioned.

His spokesperson advised reporters in Berlin in a while Monday that the chancellor was doing properly contemplating the circumstances.

“He was in quite a good mood this morning, but still looks a bit battered,” Steffen Hebestreit mentioned including that the picture was revealed “so that everyone can get used to how he will look in the next week or two.”

On Sunday, the 65-year-old German chief canceled appointments within the central Hesse area, the place a state election is being held on Oct. 8. However, he was anticipated to attend public appearances in a while Monday in Berlin.

Local media reported that Scholz fell whereas working in his hometown of Potsdam which is situated 28 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of the German capital.

Scholz has led Germany since December 2021. He beforehand served because the nation’s finance and labor minister, and as mayor of Hamburg.

In a profile on his occasion’s web site, Scholz says that he hated sports when he was in school however acquired a style for it from his spouse, Britta Ernst. “Today I jog as often as I can,” he says.