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		</div><p>Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has said she felt “sorrow” at Donald Trump’s return to power, and recalled that every meeting with him was “a competition: you or me”.</p>
<p>In an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel, Ms Merkel said that Mr Trump “is a challenge for the world, particularly for multilateralism”.</p>
<p>“What awaits us now is really not easy,” she said, because “the strongest economy in the world stands behind this president”, with the dollar as a dominant currency.</p>
<p>Ms Merkel worked with four American presidents while she was German chancellor. She was in power throughout Mr Trump’s first term – easily the most tense period for German-US relations of her 16 years in office, which ended in late 2021.</p>
<p>She recalled as “a typical scene” a famously awkward moment in the Oval Office when she first visited Mr Trump at the White House in March 2017.</p>
<figure id="attachment_174687" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-174687" style="width: 764px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/30B67D82-41D8-4867-BB96-FB8A3505219C.jpeg" alt="" width="764" height="512" class="size-full wp-image-174687" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-174687" class="wp-caption-text">Former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel</figcaption></figure>
<p>Photographers shouted: “Handshake!” and Ms Merkel quietly asked Mr Trump: “Do you want to have a handshake?” There was no response from the US leader, who looked ahead with his hands clasped.</p>
<p>“I tried to coax him into a handshake for the photographers because I thought in my constructive way that maybe he hadn’t noticed they wanted such a picture,” Ms Merkel was quoted as saying. “But of course his refusal was calculation.”</p>
<p>The pair did shake hands at other points during the visit.</p>
<p>Asked what a German chancellor should know about dealing with Mr Trump, Ms Merkel said he was very curious and wanted details – “but only to read them for his own advantage, to find arguments that strengthen him and weaken others”.</p>
<p>“The more people there were in the room, the greater was his urge to be the winner,” she added. “You can’t chat with him. Every meeting is a competition: you or me.”</p>
<p>Ms Merkel said she felt “sorrow” at Mr Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the November 5 US presidential election. “It was already a disappointment for me that Hillary Clinton didn’t win in 2016,” she said.</p>
<p>“I would have liked a different outcome.”</p>
<p>The 70-year-old Ms Merkel, a centre-right Christian Democrat who has generally kept a low profile since leaving office, is due to release her memoirs next week.</p>
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