Angela Merkel Ruffled at Prospect of More Trump Hardball Tactics, Sources Say
- Chancellery alarmed at U.S. push against pipeline, people say
- U.S. looked to divide Germany from EU allies on Nord Stream 2
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Donald Trump is starting to get under Angela Merkel’s skin.
The German chancellor emerged from a bruising week of diplomacy with her most vigorous defense yet of the multilateral order threatened by Trump on Saturday. Merkel’s push back was shaped by her alarm at the U.S.’s increasingly aggressive maneuvers, according to three people familiar with her thinking.