Angela Merkel, in memoir, recalls tricks for dealing with Donald Trump
Angela Merkel sought advice from the pope on dealing with Donald Trump when he was first elected U.S. president, hoping to find ways of convincing a man she saw as having a property developer's winner-or-loser mentality not to quit the Paris climate accords. In her memoir, extracts of which were published in German weekly Die Zeit late on Wednesday evening, the long-serving German chancellor detailed her difficulties in dealing with Trump, who, she said, appeared to her fascinated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian leaders. "He saw everything from the perspective of the property developer he was before entering politics," she wrote.
21 Nov 00:32 · Yahoo News