Trump and Merkel find something to agree on – apprenticeships – as President greets German chancellor for face to face talks following campaign accusations she was ruining her country with migrant influx The leaders of the Western world's most influential counties will meet face-to-face for the first time today Will discuss strengthening NATO, fighting the Islamic State group and resolving Ukraine's conflict on Friday President Donald Trump spent much of 2016 bashing the chancellor Angela Merkel shared a strong bond with President Barack Obama By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com and Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 11:56 EDT, 17 March 2017 | UPDATED: 14:41 EDT, 17 March 2017
President Donald Trump gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel a warm welcome at the White House today after accusing her of 'ruining Germany' for allowing an influx of refugees from Syria into her country during his presidential campaign.
As the two sat down for their first face-to-face meeting since his election, Trump called it a 'great honor' to meet her – after repeatedly dissing Merkel during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Helping to break the ice at a joint meeting with business executives was Germany's support for apprenticeship programs, something Trump, the former 'Apprentice' star, couldn't help but point out.
'Both Germany and the United States are pioneering job-training programs,' Trump said. Here in the United States, companies have created revolutionary high-tech and online courses and, of course, for decades Germany has been a model for highly successful apprenticeship – that's a name I like, apprentice – apprenticeship programs,' Trump said.
Trump was seated between Merkel and IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty. Execs from BMW, Siemens, and other companies also were there – as was daughter Ivanka Trump.
Pretty tame press conference. Both cordial to each other. The Donald with the best line when ask by a German reporter about wiretapping by Obama claims....he nods toward Merkel and says,
Germany has been a US Occupied Territory since the end of WW2 and they've pretty much done as they were told by the USA - perhaps including agreeing to the massive influx of allegedly "homeless refugees"
( IMHO it's plain that this has been an engineered / staged event to force social change and disruption upon the European region )
rmac318: Pretty tame press conference. Both cordial to each other. The Donald with the best line when ask by a German reporter about wiretapping by Obama claims....he nods toward Merkel and says,
"Now we have something in common after all"
I know its hard to do... BUT Don't take what Trump said out of context... you lose the meaning when you do...
SistaCallie: I know its hard to do... BUT Don't take what Trump said out of context... you lose the meaning when you do...
Oh lighten the frick up Francis. His remark was light hearted and the room laughed. The only ones who didn't laugh are the perpetually offended....look in a mirror and you'll see who I mean. Now continue with your life filled with constant Trump thoughts that you spin into these threads. Notice the lack of emoticons.....I don't want you to think I'm kidding around with you in the least.
rmac318: Oh lighten the frick up Francis. His remark was light hearted and the room laughed. The only ones who didn't laugh are the perpetually offended....look in a mirror and you'll see who I mean. Now continue with your life filled with constant Trump thoughts that you spin into these threads. Notice the lack of emoticons.....I don't want you to think I'm kidding around with you in the least.
I heard that they wear hair shirts and barbed wire knickers ... to be doubly sure that their extra thin skins always maintain that peculiar level of extreme 'bleeding heart' sensitivity !
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HexagonKeySet: Germany has been a US Occupied Territory since the end of WW2 and they've pretty much done as they were told by the USA - perhaps including agreeing to the massive influx of allegedly "homeless refugees"
( IMHO it's plain that this has been an engineered / staged event to force social change and disruption upon the European region )
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The leaders of the Western world's most influential counties will meet face-to-face for the first time today
Will discuss strengthening NATO, fighting the Islamic State group and resolving Ukraine's conflict on Friday
President Donald Trump spent much of 2016 bashing the chancellor
Angela Merkel shared a strong bond with President Barack Obama
By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com and Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
PUBLISHED: 11:56 EDT, 17 March 2017 | UPDATED: 14:41 EDT, 17 March 2017
President Donald Trump gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel a warm welcome at the White House today after accusing her of 'ruining Germany' for allowing an influx of refugees from Syria into her country during his presidential campaign.
As the two sat down for their first face-to-face meeting since his election, Trump called it a 'great honor' to meet her – after repeatedly dissing Merkel during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Helping to break the ice at a joint meeting with business executives was Germany's support for apprenticeship programs, something Trump, the former 'Apprentice' star, couldn't help but point out.
'Both Germany and the United States are pioneering job-training programs,' Trump said. Here in the United States, companies have created revolutionary high-tech and online courses and, of course, for decades Germany has been a model for highly successful apprenticeship – that's a name I like, apprentice – apprenticeship programs,' Trump said.
Trump was seated between Merkel and IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty. Execs from BMW, Siemens, and other companies also were there – as was daughter Ivanka Trump.
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