German Chancellor Merkel will enter the lion’s den on Tuesday, March 14, for her first meeting with President Trump. It is difficult to remember such an inauspicious start in the sixty eight year relationship between the United States and a democratic Germany. While there have been quite a few bad personal relationships — between German chancellors and American presidents, including Konrad Adenauer and John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Helmut Schmidt, and more recently the split over the Iraq War between George W Bush and Gerhard Schröder — this meeting is different and more portentous. Donald Trump as a candidate …read more
Frau Merkel Comes to Washington
