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    Merkel: Ich habe Trump mit „jemand ganz Normalem“ verwechselt


    Merkel: Ich habe Trump mit „jemand ganz Normalem“ verwechselt

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/21/angela-merkel-i-mistook-donald-trump-for-someone-completely-normal

    Von Affectionate_Cat293

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    43 Comments

    2. Xepeyon on

      She talks a lot about ignoring Trump’s fascination with authoritarianism and Putin, but it comes off as a bit… disingenuous, considering her own political relationship of courting with Putin and Russia. Putin didn’t have a soft spot for authoritarianism, he literally was authoritarian. It’s all really off-putting.

    3. heavy-minium on

      What a misleading title.

      “As soon as the words left my mouth, I shook my head at myself. How could I forget that Trump knew precisely what he was doing … He wanted to give people something to talk about with his behaviour, while I had acted as though I were having a conversation with someone completely normal.”

    4. ClearlyPopcornSucks on

      Well Angela, good that you never were a politician because your poor judgement could lead to some unpleasant consequences for your country and others around it 🙂 🙂 🙂

    5. vandrag on

      Merkel needs to enjoy her retirement a bit more. Maybe play some bingo.

      We’re dealing with the results of her statecraft right now.

      I can’t imagine Germany will look back on her time too fondly.

    6. lhrbos on

      Merkel has nothing to say. She single handedly fucked Germany and Europe. Trump was right about everything she was doing wrong with Russia.

    7. AdminEating_Dragon on

      Merkel is the epitome of “let’s not change anything” and “if we trade enough, we will never have a war” mentality that plagues Germany the last decades…

    10. SmokingStack on

      I did the same with my boss. He’s very good at disarming people and getting them to like him. But you only ever get screwed if you let yourself be charmed.

    12. JustPassingBy696969 on

      If there is someone who has no right to call out Trump, it’s her. She did more damage to EU and NATO than the orange one could ever dream of.

    13. ownnosinkundbehappy on

      Says a woman who changed Europe forever due to her Wir schaffen das policy. Why is she not in jail?

    16. Then_Aioli_4815 on

      If Trump was this character europeans think of him being then surely no european political figures would say anything that can be interpreted as bad about him publicly, at least not to the same frequency

    19. suiluhthrown78 on

      I wonder what he thought when ministers in her cabinet laughed off some of his warnings which turned out to be true, not just her or her party to blame here as it was always a coalition of course

      I dont like either of these people

    20. GovernmentBig2749 on

      And thought Nord Stream 2 bypassing Ukraine was a great idea. F U Merka.

    21. deeo-gratiaa on

      In my country, our mainstream medias again and again promoted the narrative of Merkel being the top of the top politian, Germans being so brave and ahead in taking so many “skilled and work eager immigrants” while “we are racist, backpedalling and going to regret not enriching our country by people in needs”. Not to mention praising other internal and internatial politics of Germany.

      Well, we have taken the largest share of Ukranian refugees per capita. The same journalists now hewvily criticize Merkel and Germany for making Europe heavily dependant on Russia, Minsk agreements etc.

      I myself keep wondering whether she was really this naive and incompetent, or actually intentionally allowed Germany to fall off and actee as a Russian agent. She would not be the first German polititian to have been an undercover Russian agent…

    23. BachelorThesises on

      She should just shut up and stay quiet during her retirement, she was one of the biggest Putin pleasers in Europe and is responsible for a lot of shit that has been going on in Europe as well as Germany the last few years.

    25. bi_curiousgeorge12 on

      She royally screwed Germany with her push for russian energy and open borders.

    26. Gobiego on

      We all make mistakes. Some thought that when Germany pledged a percentage of GDP to support NATO military standards they would follow through. Looking back on it now, it would have been a pretty good idea, huh?

    27. JustExpertsAround on

      Well, it looks like it wasn’t Trump who was doing business with Putin for decades…

    29. Euphoric-Throat5970 on

      Merkel is the no.1 reason Orban and his oligarchs could obtain this level of corruptcy.Anything can be ignored when the german carmakers want cheap labour and zero/minimal tax

    31. zRywii on

      Im sure Germans are today very happy thinking about her policy and effects.

    33. Quick_Estate7409 on

      Please stop with Merkel news. She isn’t relevant politically anymore and created this mess in Europe with her enabling in the first place.

    34. BrokenHeadPVP on

      Merkel did more damage to Europe than Trump could to America in a million years

    36. lohdunlaulamalla on

      >Angela Merkel’s first mistake with Donald Trump, she says in her keenly awaited new memoir, was treating him as if he were “completely normal”, but she quickly learned of his “emotional” nature and soft spot for authoritarians and tyrants.

      Shouldn’t she have had a team that briefed her extensively before she met him? Anyone following the 2016 US election could’ve told her that the new president was not like his predecessors in many regards – and one would assume that she’d have access to more personal accounts of his character through other channels.

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