'We also don’t eat cats and dogs': Trump taunted for debate fumble by unexpected jokester

Donald Trump's debate performance Tuesday night against Vice President Kamala Harris earned him a taunting insult from an unexpected source — the city of Berlin.

Germany's foreign ministry Wednesday morning took a jab at the former president and Republican nominee after he claimed Berlin regretted its renewable energy infrastructure.

“Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50 percent renewables,” the ministry wrote on X. “PS: We also don’t eat cats and dogs."

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On Tuesday night, Trump in his closing arguments cited Germany as a reason to support fracking and continued use of fossil fuel.

"You believe in things like we’re not going to frack, we’re not going to take fossil fuel, we’re not going to do things that are going to be strong,” Trump said to Harris. “Germany tried that, and within one year, they were back to building normal energy plants."

The German ministry denied Trump's claim.

"We are shutting down – not building – coal & nuclear plants," they wrote. "Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest."

The cats and dogs jab was a reference to a debunked and criticized claim, spread this week by Trump's running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and repeated by the former president on the debate stage, that Haitian migrants have been eating Ohioans' pets.

"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats," Trump said. "They're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's happening in our country."

Debate moderator David Muir corrected Trump by noting the Springfield city manager denied the claims and briskly sweeping aside the former president's attempt to justify the comment because of what "the people on television say."

"I'm not taking this from television," said Muir. "I'm taking it from the city manager."