The U.S. election results dominated German media coverage Wednesday as the European nation faces its own political tensions.

“We’ve moved from a moment of alternative facts with Kellyanne Conway to now embracing the idea of lies,” Jane Mayer says.

But none of these flashes of coherence have lasted. The Trump-Vance campaign keeps going right back to its tabloid-style campaign. Trump is a man of odd obsessions, most of them a little strange ...