Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out about her experiences with President-elect Donald Trump and other world leaders during her time in office — often in less-than-flattering ways.Merkel offers a laundry list of complaints about Trump in her new memoir, Freedom: Memories 1954-2021, which is set to be released on Nov. 26.
“[Trump] judged everything from the perspective of the property entrepreneur he had been before politics,” Merkel writes. “Each property could only be allocated once. If he didn’t get it, someone else did. That was also how he looked at the world.”
She continues, “For him, all countries were in competition with each other, in which the success of one was the failure of the other; he did not believe that the prosperity of all could be increased through co-operation.”
Most of the former German chancellor’s complaints about the president-elect focus on a perceived unwillingness to be a team player.
At one point, Merkel says the two of them “spoke on two different levels — Trump on an emotional level, me on a factual one.”
“When he did pay attention to my arguments, it was usually only in order to construct new accusations from them,” she adds.