German Chancellor Olaf Scholz posted a photograph of himself on Thursday sporting an eyepatch over his right eye which was surrounded by bruises.
“[He] who has the damage…” he wrote to Twitter, referencing a German idiom about being joked about after an accident or bad luck.
“I look forward to the memes. Thanks for the well wishes, looks worse than it is!” he added in the post accompanying the photograph.
Wer den Schaden hat…
Bin gespannt auf die Memes. Danke für die guten Wünsche, sieht schlimmer aus, als es ist! pic.twitter.com/bB5INX8HnM— Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (@Bundeskanzler) September 4, 2023
Scholz, 65, fell while jogging and sustained bruises on his face on Saturday forcing him to cancel a citizens’ dialogue event later that day as well as all his Sunday engagements, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported. The government reportedly called the incident “a small…
