Angela Merkel recalled one awkward exchange with Donald Trump when she mistakenly acted 'as if I were dealing with an interlocutor behaving normally.'
Merkel, 70, appears to have no significant doubts about the major decisions of her 16 years as German leader, whoseincluded the global financial crisis, Europe’s debt crisis, the 2015-16 influx of refugees and the COVID-19 pandemic. True to form, her book — titled “Freedom” — offers a matter-of-fact account of her early life in communist East Germany and her later career in politics, laced with moments of dry wit., four French presidents and five British prime ministers.
The previous year, she recounts Putin pointing to wooden houses in Siberia and telling her poor people lived there who “could be easily seduced,” and that similar groups had been encouraged by money from the U.S. government to take part inin which he turned away from earlier attempts to develop closer ties with the U.S.
Obama, she says, asked questions but held back with an opinion, and that in itself was helpful. He “said that Europe could still use me very well, but I should ultimately follow my feelings,” she writes.There was no such warmth with Trump, who had criticized Merkel and Germany in his 2016 campaign. Merkel says she had to seek an “adequate relationship ... without reacting to all the provocations.”when Merkel first visited the Trump White House.
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