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Merz plays down row with Trump over ‘humiliation’ comment
Key takeaways
- BERLIN: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday insisted he and Donald Trump are still on good terms after the US president laid into him for saying Iran is “humiliating” Washington at the negotiating table.
- “From my point of view, the personal relationship between the American president and myself remains just as good as before,” Merz told a press conference in Berlin.
- The German leader said he had expressed doubts about the US-Israeli war on Iran “from the very beginning”.
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BERLIN: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday insisted he and Donald Trump are still on good terms after the US president laid into him for saying Iran is “humiliating” Washington at the negotiating table.
“From my point of view, the personal relationship between the American president and myself remains just as good as before,” Merz told a press conference in Berlin.
The German leader said he had expressed doubts about the US-Israeli war on Iran “from the very beginning”.
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