Donald Trump and Merz in the Oval Office: My friend, the narcissist

Well, it went well for Friedrich Merz. Donald Trump did not finish him, but praised him; He did not pull him to the tyranny, but recognized his English; He did not ask for the Chancellor to coalate with the AfD, Trump is enough that Merz broke with Angela Merkel. The President and the Chancellor, they can do together – just as Merz once predicted as an opposition politician. For the first time in the reign of Friedrich Merz, one can fully say about the Chancellor: promised, held.

Uh, wait a minute. Trump and Merz now “Best Buddies? Isn’t that Trump who attacks American democracy, ignores the judiciary, strokes development aid, raises tariffs, Canada and the Panama Canal, throws out, throws out students, walks Harvard, lowers taxes, help for arms and enriches himself and his family uninhibited: The American Alb-Dream? Not this president, in whom it actually appears more honorable when you are folded up or humiliated in the Oval Office because it is in truth that it documents all the ignorance, ugliness and merging of this narcissist and his government of a saliva cover?

Yes, this is this Donald Trump, whom the Germans – and not only them – despise, fear, fear or consider it crazy. And now our Chancellor gets along with that? And suddenly we all like that? So so.

The problem in politics – and in foreign policy – is that you can only work with those who are there. As irrational as this president seems to us, the majority in the United States are clear. We can close our eyes and want to be very, very, very, that Trump may disappear, but it will not be possible.

Unfortunately, Trump is also not just one person, but the top representative of a state that Germany will still be dependent on for many years if it wants to live to a certain extent. And be honest: Similar to some East Germans to Russia, there are still a deeply rooted longing for harmony in relation to the USA, regardless of the political weather conditions. In the dispute over the Iraq war, Gerhard Schröder really did with the then US President George W. Bush. You could find that right, but we were not really comfortable either.

Friedrich Merz has little influence on whether Trump personally appreciates, charmes him or even declared a friend. His performance lies in how he reacts to it – and the Chancellor made this damn skillful when he visited. He not paid homage to this president, but the United States of America, its history, its merits, also about Germany and its possibilities in international politics, right up to the war of Russia against Ukraine. The Chancellor put up with his kind, but he didn’t go to Trump’s (Sch) glue.

Yes and? What’s useful now? If Friedrich Merz can build and maintain a wire to Donald Trump, then he can explain to him why the president also harms the USA when he drives the tariffs up why a good relationship with Europe can be useful, why Putin is the criminal and not selenskyj. Trump himself compared the war between Russia and the USA with the dispute between two children in the press conference.

The fact that he understands something about this type of conflicting shows that he is stirring mutual with sand shapes, with which Trump’s friendship is now breaking to Elon Musk. The president not only sees others than child heads, he is one himself. And with his visit, Friedrich Merz has worked out the opportunity to talk to him in detail, as Emmanuel Macron and Keir Strandmer have already practiced in detail, and to take it a little politically. That’s not much. But something.