I can only assume Angela Merkel is pouring herself a stiff drink right now.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I don't envy her having to deal with another bullshit session from the Madman.

[DetlefK]

1. Unlike GWB, he at least won't give her a spontaneous shoulder-massage.

[spanone]

2. she's so mentally superior to him, i doubt she's worried.

bet she's met bigger assholes than don

[samnsara]

5. all of us here are mentally superior to him. Shes not worried..bet shes..

...itching for a fight with the orange man child.

[Ezior]

9. Mental superiority doesn't help when the world comes crashing down around you

With all the populist movements rising in countries in Europe and elsewhere, I bet she is worried. I'm just glad we got Macron, another sane guy.

[Motley13]

10. there are no bigger assholes than don

[niyad]

12. sure there are--his loyal supporters and all those pretending he is normal.

[FakeNoose]

3. I think she prefers a beer now and then

But yes this will be a tough week. And she can't stand Trump either.

[monmouth4]

6. Although undoubtedly brilliant, she looks as if you could have fun and laugh with her. Obama liked

her and that was good enough for me.

[nikibatts]

4. I bet Angela caves like the rest of them. The RW in Germany has her in a hard place.

[whathehell]

7. What 'rest of them"?

France and the UK don't seem to have caved.

[Ezior]

11. Merkel actually *is* the RW in Germany.

There's one party further to the right than her own party coalition (CDU/CSU). That party is called AfD and currently polling at 7%. That party is showing its ugly, extremely right-wing nature more and more so they are trending downwards. Now even some hardcore islamophobes don't want to vote for AfD because the party is too cozy with neonazis and Hitler fans.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I think she'll need more than one.

I'm still not over the way he treated her when she visited the US. It was so rude and disgusting. I don't know how she retains her composure around him.