The relations of every European country with the United States are of their own character. They have always been difficult with France. And the relations of Germany with the United States are existential-that is why the country feels so puzzled due to the return of a person who so proudly destroys all its established ideas about how the “leader of the free world” should behave, said John Campfner, British writer, TV presenter and.

In 2019, one of Germany's leading politicians, Thomas Bagger, laid it all out in an essay, detailing the consequences of Trump's first presidency more vividly than anyone before..

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Trump later showed demonstrative dislike for former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He still couldn't get over the fact that Merkel, hugely popular and at her peak in the mid-2010s, had been named TIME magazine's Person of the Year.

Now Merkel has largely rejected its own party by the Christian Democratic Union (HDS) and its leader Friedrich Mertz, who will probably become the next chancellor.

“Even amid the domestic election campaign, the German media is riveted on everything related to Trump. The headlines of newspapers cover each of his steps and each presidential decree, and comments vary from nervousness and self -criticism to anxiety and warnings about Armageddon, ”Campfner notes.

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Merz's approach is to try to get closer to Trump. Having sent one of the highest foreign policy figures of his party to Washington, he sent a handwritten letter to the new president, in which he described his victory in the elections as “really wonderful”, the commentator adds.

" For now, the CDU remains far ahead, but there are preliminary signs that the party's advantage is eroding somewhat - and the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has a strong 20% \u200b\u200bor slightly more, may benefit from this,” Kampfner concluded.

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Earlier we noted that German Chancellor Olaf Sholts and French President Emmanuel Macron will try to determine a new course for Europe in conditions when US President Donald Trump threatens to undermine transatlantic relations. Despite their many differences, Scholz and Macron will try to show strength and call for a swift response if the US follows through on its threats to impose tariffs on European exports.