Twitter Piles On Trump After 'klusterfu**en' Angela Merkel Visit
... 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, 2017. Angela Merkel during the joint press conference, more or less. __link__/Sma N 7 OHUi B. — Hawt Wyre (@hawtwyre) March 17, 2017. Merkel trying to exclude herself the hell from this narrative. __link__/DQq Qeyo RNA. — David Mack (@davidmackau) March 17, 2017. I think a lot of women will find Trump refusing to even look at Merkel during that presser pretty familiar. — Jessica Valenti (@Jessica Valenti) March 17, 2017. Remember this morning when we thought only US-UK diplomatic relations were in danger? What an innocent time that was. — David Mack (@davidmackau) March 17, 2017. @morninggloria So sad. The whole world just smirks at us now. — Noel Hansen (@Noel Hansen 74) March 17, 2017. @real Donald Trump met with Merkel ...
President Trump Meets With German Chancellor Angela Merkel For First Time
... Germany, the 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 ...
Trump Hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel At The White House
... RECORDING). PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I reiterated to Chancellor Merkel my strong support for NATO as well as the need for our NATO allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defense. KEITH: Trump has frequently complained that unlike the U. S., other NATO member nations fail to meet the spending levels called for in the alliances charter. Germany is one of those countries that comes up short. And in her remarks, Merkel pointed 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 ...
Russia's Putin Says Chancellor Angela Merkel Is Expected To Visit Moscow
... 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, came with a hefty price tag for Berlin. The volume of trade between the two countries dropped from 80 billion euros ($86 billion) in 2012 to 47 billion in the first 11 ...
Angela Merkel, Rex Tillerson And St. Patrick's Day
... we believe requires action," the Associated Press reported. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said the country is preparing to test an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the U. S. Tillerson told a news conference today that "all of the options are on the table," and he ruled out the possibility of negotiations unless North Korea gives up its weapons of mass destruction. Scientists expect an unusually warm spring. Federal climate scientists on Thursday said the U. S. should expect spring temperatures that are higher than average — a prediction that follows the sixth warmest winter on record. A region from Texas to New England is likely 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 ...
Angela Merkel Just Fact-shamed Donald Trump
... “murky links to the Chinese power structure,” Bloomberg reports, “have raised national security concerns over its U. S. investments,” will become a business partner of Kushner Companies in its tower at 666 Fifth Avenue, for which a young Jared Kushner paid $1.8 billion just months before the financial crisis hit. Through a $4 billion transaction, Anbang will purchase most of the building, while the Kushners will be able to “buy back into the building’s more lucrative retail spaces” that they sold when their investment went south. They’ll also keep a 20 percent stake and receive a $400 million payout from the Chinese firm, as well as roughly $100 million from other investors. Since Jared is a senior adviser to the president, a.k.a. his father-in-law, some people see this deal as a massive, steaming conflict of interest, even despite the fact that he sold his holdings in Kushner Companies. The Kushners and the Trump, you ...
Germany's Angela Merkel To Meet With Trump
... as the end of the Western world, which sort of was depicted on that cover. What we know from the polls - as much as you can trust them nowadays - is that you have 80 to 90 percent of Germans saying that they pretty much abhor what he's doing. But I think people do understand that we need to remain allies because without a strong and stable United States, we are going to be threatened, of course, by Russian and other countries, which don't have the scruples the American democracy usually has. MARTIN: What do Germans make of the fact that Donald Trump has tried to cultivate closer ties with Russia and Vladimir Putin in particular. KOCH: It's worrying, seeing that Angela Merkel is the one who's sort of most strict and most stern about upholding sanctions against Russia. We need close ties to the U. S. to keep ...
Angela Merkel Ally Vows To Ban Turkish Rallies In Germany
... controversial constitutional referendum. Over the last two weeks, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched provocative remarks in the direction of the Netherlands and Germany, suggesting “Nazi practices” had led to the cancellation of recent rallies for the countries’ Turkish minorities. On Tuesday, Mr Erdogan suggested Dutch UN peacekeepers’ failure to prevent a massacre of Muslim men in Bosnia in 1995 showed Dutch “morality” was “broken”. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, facing an election on Wednesday, dismissed Mr Erdogan’s remarks as “increasingly more hysterical hour by hour” and told the BBC: “I want him to. calm down.”. Dr Merkel has 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, ...
Trump Bid To Smooth Relations With Germany’s Angela Merkel Complicated By Policy, Personal Differences
... rulings. “Immigration is a privilege, not a right,” Trump said at a joint news conference with Merkel, adding, “the safety of our citizens must always come first.”. (The Washington Post). Merkel’s decision to welcome large numbers of Syrian refugees stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s insistence that the U. S. refugee program has made the country vulnerable to terrorist infiltration. Merkel on Friday acknowledged the need to secure borders and work to integrate immigrants into society, but she emphasized that such goals have “to be done while looking at the refugees as well, giving them opportunities to shape their own lives. [and] help countries who right now are not able to do so, sometimes because they have civil war.”. Beyond policy, their summit was marked by an Oval Office photo op during which Trump appeared to disregard Merkel’s suggestion that they shake hands and he generally avoided making eye contact with her as news photographers captured the scene. And Trump put the German leader on the spot during their news conference when he made an awkward joke about them having “something in common” over his ...
Joachim Sauer, Angela Merkel’s Husband
... to go out of his way to avoid the media and lead a private life. He gets the kind of publicity research scientists 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 ...
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