The TelegraphNo other European leader has criticised Donald Trump as fiercely as Friedrich Merz , Germany’s new chancellor.
On Thursday, the two will come face to face in Washington in what is the biggest test of Mr Merz’s tenure so far.
It means entering the gladiatorial arena of the Oval Office and enduring the impromptu press conferences now dreaded by visiting leaders the world over.
Mr Trump has already ambushed Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky , South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa and Jordan’s King Abdullah II in front of the cameras. But Mr Merz is no pushover.
“When he comes into the room, everyone goes quiet, like when the schoolteacher comes in,” a source from his centre-Right Christian Democrats (CDU) said.
“And he can be really tough on people, to the point of being rude.”
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