It's not great.
The two leaders have had a tense relationship since Trump was inaugurated two years ago. Last week, Merkel gave a graduation commencement speech at Harvard University that was widely interpreted as a rebuke of Trump.
"More than ever our actions have to be multilateral rather than unilateral," Merkel said, that seemed to be pointed criticism of Trump's"America First" approach to foreign policy."Don't disguise lies as truth, and truth as lies… Tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness," she continued.as one of Europe's rivals, similar to China and Russia.
The fraught relationship between the two leaders is reflected in the outlook of many Germans. Germans largely think their country's relationship with the U.S. is floundering, but Americans continue to believe that the relationship is going well, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
"In the U.S., seven-in-ten say that relations with Germany are good, a sentiment that has not changed much in the past year. Germans, on the other hand, are much more negative: 73% say that relations with the U.S. are bad, a 17-percentage-point increase since 2017," the Pew Research Center's findings from earlier this year read.
"Nearly three-quarters of Germans are also convinced that a foreign policy path independent from the U.S. is preferable to the two countries remaining as close as they have been in the past."
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