German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is having a little bit of enjoyable after a jogging incident over the weekend pressured him to don an eye fixed patch.
The 65-year-old fell on Saturday and sustained bruises to his face, based on Deutsche Welle.
Mr. Scholz determined to make the perfect of it, posting a proper photograph of himself on the X platform — previously Twitter — with a shirt and tie and a giant black patch over his proper eye.
“I look forward to the memes. Thanks for the well wishes, looks worse than it is!” Mr. Scholz wrote.
Online customers have been blissful to oblige, posting a mockup of the famously buttoned-up, low-key chancellor with a pirate hat and parrot on his shoulder.
German media mentioned the chancellor was pressured to cancel public occasions on Sunday however has a busy week forward.
Mr. Scholz, a member of the Social Democratic Party, has been chancellor since December 2021. He changed Angela Merkel, who served as chancellor for 16 years.
Notably, Mr. Scholz has overseen Germany’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He’s elevated the nation’s protection price range, despatched weapons to Ukraine and halted the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia.
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