Merkel trashes Trump as ’emotional,’ saying reelection is ‘disappointment’– www.washingtonexaminer.com Source Link Excerpt:
Merkel offers a laundry list of complaints about Trump in her new memoir, Freedom: Memories 1954-2021, which is set to be released on Nov. 26.
“[Trump] judged everything from the perspective of the property entrepreneur he had been before politics,” Merkel writes. “Each property could only be allocated once. If he didn’t get it, someone else did. That was also how he looked at the world.”
In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend ceremonies at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. On the international stage, Merkel insisted on seeking compromises and pursuing a multilateral approach to the world’s problems through years of turbulence that saw the United States drift apart from European allies under Trump. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File)
She continues, “For him, all countries were in competition with each other, in which the success of one was the failure of the other; he did not believe that the prosperity of all could be increased through co-operation.”
