Angela Merkel

Twitter Piles On Trump After 'klusterfu**en' Angela Merkel Visit

... go well. From President Donald Trump ’s refusal to shake hands with Angela Merkel in the Oval Office, to the president’s insistence yet again that he was a victim of wiretapping  to the aghast look on the German chancellor’s face when she got a load of Trump, the meeting between the state leaders Friday was a bust. The only chortling amid the screams were tweeters, who landed a few humorous jabs at the president’s expense. There were those who were sad to see Merkel leave. Today we have a smart, level-headed and decisive leader in Washington, D. C. Too bad she has to go back to Germany. — Tea Pain (@Tea Pain USA) March 17, 2017. Merkel at WH press conference: "I've always said it's much, much better to talk to one another, not about one another." __link__/C 6 Wmnbjsji. — Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 17, 2017. And there were those who will forever love Merkel for “that look” she gave Trump. — Leanne Stewart (@Leanne Stewart) March 17, 2017. The best part of this is Merkel looking at the audience like: "Can you believe this schmuck?" __link__/0 hcd AA 19 Na. — Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) March 17, ...

Angela Merkel, Rex Tillerson And St. Patrick's Day

... to experience the hottest temperatures, while areas in the Midwest and parts of California could become more vulnerable to flooding. St. Patrick's Day celebrations begin. Today is St. Patrick's Day, a holiday that many Americans will celebrate by donning the color green, per a tradition that spans centuries. New York City's parade will march down Fifth Avenue this morning, and businesses across the country are celebrating with shamrock-themed deals. Scientists in Britain have received approval to create babies using DNA from three people. France has banned a hoverboard inventor from taking flight. A Maryland city is removing a statue of the Supreme Court Justice who said slaves weren’t citizens. Someone apparently hacked Mc Donald’s Twitter account and called Trump "disgusting.". Chelsea Clinton is writing a children's book called ...

Joachim Sauer, Angela Merkel’s Husband

... aren’t used to. Sauer didn’t even attend Merkel’s swearing in ceremony. The 67-year-old Sauer and the 62-year-old Merkel do not have any children together, but Sauer does have two sons, Daniel and Adrian, from a previous marriage. Here’s what you need to know about Sauer. 1. Sauer & Merkel Have Been Married Since 1998. Sauer and Merkel have been married since December 1998. According to Bild , the marriage was so secretive that neither brought their parents or friends. The paper reports that even some of Merekl’s closest confidants learned about the wedding from a newspaper. It was the second marriage for both of them. Merkel, whose maiden name is Kasner, was previously married to physics student Ulrich Merkel from 1977 to 1982. The name of Sauer’s first wife has not been revealed publicly. Their marriage might ...

Trump Hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel At The White House

... out that she has committed to getting up to the mandated 2 percent of GDP by 2024. CORNISH: Meanwhile, President Trump for the last couple weeks has maintained that President Obama had him wiretapped during the campaign. He's never given any evidence for this. And this was Trump's first press conference since making that claim. How did it come up? How did he talk about it. KEITH: Well, it actually took a question from German reporters - two of them brought it up - for Trump to be asked about it. Neither of the American reporters did ask about it. Trump said that he does not regret any of his tweets or rarely regrets tweeting. And then he turned to Merkel and made a joke. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING). TRUMP: As far as wiretapping I guess by, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps. KEITH: So what he was talking about there was the international firestorm that erupted after leaked documents revealed that the U. S. had eavesdropped on Merkel's phone calls. In 2013, those revelations really strained the relationship between the Obama administration and ...

President Trump Meets With German Chancellor Angela Merkel For First Time

... most powerful political force in the European Union, has also been deeply concerned by Trump criticisms of NATO and deep skepticism inside the White House about the EU itself. Speaker of the House still trusts Trump despite lack of wiretap evidence. - Speaker of the House Sen. Paul Ryan said he has not seen any evidence that backs President Trump's claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. In an interview on Thursday on CNN's "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, Ryan said, "We have not seen any evidence that there was a wiretap or a (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court order against Trump Tower or somebody in Trump Tower.". Ryan said, however, that he still trusted Trump , and that the apparently false claims the President aired on Twitter would not damage the White House's credibility. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the committee's ranking Democrat, also stated they "see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.". White House sorry over British spying allegations. - ...

Germans Think Trump's Rapid Reschedule Of Merkel Trip Is Significant

... Africa." Both sides also vowed to cooperate closely on combating terrorism. President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel from the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 28. MANDEL NGAN / AFP - Getty Images. But since then, Merkel has used public appearances to hit out at some of Trump's policies and remarks. The German leader strongly criticized Trump's entry ban for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries and countered Trump's Twitter message in which he called the mainstream press the "enemy of the American people.". "I stand by a free and independent press and have great respect for journalists," Merkel said in a speech during this year's Munich Security Conference, which included Vice President Mike Pence in the audience. Merkel added that she sees press freedom as a pillar of democracy and that Germany had always done well "with mutual respect for each other.". Mutual respect is also what Merkel is hoping to establish with the new U. S. administration ...

Germany's Angela Merkel To Meet With Trump

... better prepared. I don't think she'll have that competition with Donald Trump (laughter). But I know that she's watched video footage. She's had her staff talk to Jared Kushner. She's talked to Justin Trudeau about how his meeting with Trump went. And I even heard she read a Playboy interview that Donald Trump gave a couple of years ago to get to know him before meeting him. MARTIN: Wow, she is committed to her research. (Laughter) That is an odd image thinking about Angela Merkel reading Playboy. KOCH: (Laughter). MARTIN: What is she looking for out of this meeting? You say she wants a clean slate; she wants to start over. Is she likely to bring up specifics. KOCH: If you look at her entourage, you'll see that there are a lot of CEOs of very important German companies, such Siemens, such as BMW and Schaeffler. I think she wants to make a point that the companies have created thousands of jobs in the United States and that an import tax, which we are threatened with basically, or Europe is threatened with, will end up in a trade war. So the English word she puts a lot of emphasis on right now is the word reciprocity. So if there's an import tax coming from ...

Angela Merkel Just Fact-shamed Donald Trump

... leaving the industry to write about it for the last 13 years, including for the Hive. In his new book, Why Wall Street Matters, he has harsh words for Dodd-Frank and those who want to keep punishing the industry. Though he disagrees with Donald Trump on just about everything, Cohan is encouraged by the president’s executive order to scale back Dodd-Frank. As for preventing another economic calamity? Cohan believes he has the answer, which he told us about during a chat earlier this month. VF: You say that Dodd-Frank has led to “economic hopelessness” and extreme voting patterns and that, basically, Dodd-Frank is to blame for Donald Trump and Brexit. Do you think that Hillary Clinton would have won if Dodd-Frank, in its current form, hadn’t been passed. Bill Cohan: Well, look, none of us really know all the causes of what led to Trump. That’ll probably be something that’ll be studied for generations. We do know ...

Trump Stands By Wiretapping Claim During Merkel Visit

... chancellor is trying to forge a relationship with Trump despite suspicion over his political views. Washington (CNN). President Donald Trump on Friday refused to disown claims, highlighted by his White House, that British intelligence tapped his phones following a request by President Barack Obama last year, risking a deepening rift with America's key ally. Trump's aides had earlier attempted to quell British anger over the claims, based on a Fox News report cited by his press secretary, Sean Spicer, in a briefing Thursday, by explaining the comment to the UK government. But in an awkward moment on live television while meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel - whose cell phone was once tapped by the National Security Agency - Trump quipped that he and the German leader had something in common. Trump's ...

Angela Merkel Ally Vows To Ban Turkish Rallies In Germany

... dismissed Turkish Nazi comparisons as “disqualifying themselves”, but has come under fresh attack from Mr Erdogan for, in his view, “supporting terrorists”. In a television appearance, the Turkish president made references to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), deemed a terrorist organisation by Turkey and the EU, and accused Berlin of not responding to 4,500 dossiers sent by Turkey on PKK suspects in Germany. Listen to World View. “Mrs Merkel, why are you hiding terrorists in your country? Why are you not doing anything?” Mr Erdogan said. Dr Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, dismissed the latest claims as “absurd”, adding: “The chancellor does not intend to participate in a provocation contest.”. ‘Testing the limits’. Her interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, also dismissed such claims, saying German authorities had acted on thousands of PKK tip-offs. The German ...

Russia's Putin Says Chancellor Angela Merkel Is Expected To Visit Moscow

... trip to Moscow was in May 2015, when she attended the ceremonies marking the anniversary of the end of World War II. Merkel and Putin have met several times since but only on the sidelines of multilateral events such as the talks on resolving the crisis in Ukraine. Moscow in May. The diplomatic ice age, however, might be nearing an end, according to the latest remarks by Seehofer and Putin. After meeting Seehofer on Thursday, Putin said that Merkel was set to visit Moscow in early May. "Give my very best wishes to the federal chancellor," Putin told Seehofer. "We are awaiting her visit on May 2.". Seehofer confirmed that Merkel was preparing for the trip, adding that the German chancellor had sent her "cordial regards" to Putin. "She reminded me to tell you this several times," Seehofer said. Pressure from German business. Germany, as the leading economic power in the EU, played a key role in maintaining a regime of economic sanctions against Moscow. The sanctions, however, ...

Trump Bid To Smooth Relations With Germany’s Angela Merkel Complicated By Policy, Personal Differences

... which had been negotiated by the Obama administration, have stalled. Trump said he is not anti-trade, but wants “fair trade,” and he reiterated his past criticism that U. S. policies have harmed American workers. Despite his endorsement of NATO, Trump reiterated his campaign-trail criticism that member nations are not paying their “fair share” to support the security alliance. Trump said some countries owe “vast sums” in dues, which is “very unfair to the United States” — an allegation that appeared to be based on an incomplete understanding of how the alliance is funded. Trump stated that each nation agreed to contribute 2 percent of its gross domestic product to NATO. In fact, the alliance had long ago set a goal that each member would devote at least 2 percent of GDP to defense in their own budgets. The members contribute their capabilities to NATO, not monetary assessments. Those who haven’t reached 2 ...