In an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel published Friday, Merkel said that Trump “is a challenge for the world, particularly for multilateralism.”
“What awaits us now is really not easy,” she said, because “the strongest economy in the world stands behind this president” with the dollar as a dominant currency.while she was German chancellor. She was in power throughout Trump’s first term — easily the most tense period for German-U.S. relations of her 16 years in office, which ended in late 2021.
President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands following their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 17, 2017. “I tried to coax him into a handshake for the photographers because I thought in my constructive way that maybe he hadn’t noticed they wanted such a picture,” Merkel was quoted as saying. “But of course his refusal was calculation.
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