Merkel 'had to explain fundamentals of EU trade to Trump 11 times'

Ten times he asked if he could negotiate a trade deal with Germany. Every time she replied, 'You can’t do a trade deal with Germany, only the EU'.
On the eleventh refusal, Trump finally got the message, 'Oh, we’ll do a deal with Europe then.'

Urban legend.
Same story has been told about Putin and California when he met then-governor Schwartzenegger.

It is a hard concept to grasp. A lot of Americans around here do not understand how tariffs and deals work. They simple cannot understand that goods, once they are in a common market, flow freely within that market, so there has to be a common external trade barrier or no barrier at all.

He's not really doing a deal with "europe" though, he's doing a deal with Germany. She did not get the joke.

oh boy another unnamed and unverified source breathlessly insisting that Trump is some sort of special retard which concludes with the stunning revelation that he is not, in fact, retarded

Great psy-op. I'm extremely convinced.

Or maybe he was twisting her nipples to find any sort of loopholes in the way trade is done in the EU.

But you're all a bunch of gape assed faggots for Brussels and can't make your own deals.

kek, if true, sounds like he was taunting her

Even then, makes sense to talk to the country that runs the EU. Why waste time with the front man?

the man understands trading and unions, he's obviously making fun of the EU and showing that germany is hurting itself by pandering to weaker members

>herr Trump, this is how we do things
And it's bad, so bad I'm telling you
>but herr Trump, this is how we do things
You're not listening, it's shit! It's so bad!
>HERR TRUMP, we're not the US! THIS is how we do things here
No wonder your superstate is crumbling like a Jenga tower built by babies
>HERRRRR TRRRUUUUUMPPP!!! FÜR DEN LETZTER MAL, THIS IS HOW WE DO THINGS
But I don''t wanna
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Okay stop now
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Stop
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Oh, we'll do a deal with Europe then.
>Danke herr Trump, endlich wisdom.
*one nation at a time*
*tfw*

So you admit to abandoning national sovereignty to a faceless unaccountable multinational organization that values only its own profit?

>Trump desperatly hoping that he could get Germany out of this mess
>He wouldnt stop believing
>By the eleventh time, he realised that it is over, there is nothing left to save.

Leave us behind, before they get you too.

Sucks to be part of the EU.

Why would you assume that nationalism plays well in a region of the planet that has only very recently had a concept of a nation outside of an empire? And, worse than that, one that has had a nation not only cut in half by differing geopolitical influences, but one whose very concept of "nation" has been engineered by various external parties so as to be less of a future threat?

Germany has been modified beyond all recognition. Jury is out on whether or not that has been a good thing.

liberals have no sense of humor

>Trump reminded merkel 10 (ten) times that she does not have a sovereign country.

I got the crap humor, but it's hard not to notice that negotiated with frau Merkel makes sense. She basically runs the whole EU experiment, so why not?

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Where did you get that picture of me?!

fuck off varg

Fuck off Tyrone

wow I fuck youre ass hard till you dead

Because the "rest of the EU experiement" is a joke. Germany is propping the rest up. which is why America should be dealing with GERMANY

merkel has big bobs

He was the one making the point. You can't do anything with an individual state, ya have to deal with the whole ball of shit. Canada nearly lost a trade deal that took years to negotiate over some cheese makers from Belguium