Donald Trump | Alex Wong/Getty Images Donald Trump: Germany and France ‘a disaster’ Tycoon says Clinton wants to be the Merkel of the US.

Donald Trump on Tuesday called Germany and France "a disaster" and criticized Hillary Clinton for attempting to replicate Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy.

Speaking in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Republican presidential nominee said: "It's a disaster. It's a total disaster, on top of which you have migration which is destroying Europe. Look at Merkel, what happened to her in the election is incredible."

The German chancellor's conservatives finished third in a regional election in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Sunday, falling behind the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany.

"Germany is a disaster now. France is a disaster," Trump said. "And you look at the election results, they were so bad. People were saying oh, [we] think she'll be OK. I don't think she'll be OK. I was saying two weeks ago, I said why would she be OK? Millions of people go into Germany. The crime is unbelievable. The problems they're having [are] unbelievable and Hillary Clinton wants to be the Merkel of the United States, OK? It's not gonna happen. I tell you what, I don't think it's gonna happen."