Trump was fascinated by Putin: Merkel remembered the US President admired the dictators

According to Merkel, Donald Trump lived in the paradigm that the defeat of one state is necessarily the victory of another. The newly elected US President Donald Trump was fascinated by Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first cadence. This is mentioned by the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in his memoirs published by Die Zeit. College, during the first meeting of Merkel with Trump in 2017 in the White House Oval office, the US President asked her about his relationship with Putin.

"He was obviously very fascinated by the Russian President. In the following years, I had the impression that politicians with autocratic and dictatorial features were capturing him," Merkel wrote. According to her, Trump viewed everything from the point of view of the "developer", which seeks to win a certain area of ​​"land". "For him, all countries competed with each other, where the success of one was the defeat of the other.

He did not believe that everyone could be increased by cooperation," Merkel said in memoirs. The former German Chancellor also remembered how difficult he was a press, after the first conversation with Trump. "We talked at two different levels. Trump is at an emotional level, I am at the facts level . . . It seemed that he did not seek to solve the problems we talked about," Merkel explained.

She emphasized that when communicating with journalists, she attempted to meet the facts and numbers of HNA all the reproaches that were heard from Trump. "It seemed to me that he tried to make the interlocutor feel guilty. When he realized that I was actively denying him, he cut off his tirade sharply and changed the topic," Merkel recalled. We will remind, in the same memoirs Merkel mentioned the pre -war confession of Putin to Ukraine.