His latest rant is likely to only fan the flames of anti-Trump feeling in Germany and its neighbors in the EU.
Merkel said Tuesday Germany's relations with the United States are of "outstanding importance" but it must engage with other key nations going forward.
In a sign of Berlin's shifting focus towards Asia, Merkel is also due to meet Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
"The United States are older and bigger than the current conflict", he said, adding that relations would improve.
President Donald Trump and Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, at a news conference in March. "This is what I experienced in the last few days". He says that is "what the president called for". Merkel's Social Democratic predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, publicly disavowed George W Bush's invasion of Iraq in a trans-Atlantic rift that Merkel worked to fix upon her election in 2005. In fact, said the Press Secretary, the Trump-Merkel relationship is "fairly unbelievable". "We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbors wherever possible, also with Russian Federation ..."
Modi, the prime minister of the world's largest democracy, welcomed a stronger global role for the European Union and expressly lauded the bloc's most powerful leader.
Trump's goals in trip to west Asia
An official statement by the PA's foreign ministry described Netanyahu as "racist denying the occupation's existence". McMaster had said earlier this week that Trump's visit to the Western Wall would not involve any Israeli officials.
Modi said economic collaboration between Germany and India was still "below full potential". Very bad for the US.
Despite various signals that Trump and Merkel are not on the same page, as witnessed during the US President's Europe visit, the Press Secretary said that the US President views not just Germany, but the rest of the Europe as important ally to America.
Merkel, whose worldview contrasts with Trump's nationalism, made comments after the G-7 summit that were interpreted as casting doubt on the reliability of the U.S.as a partner to Europe under Trump's leadership. Trump has vowed to walk away from the historic Paris deal while Merkel supports the agreement.
"I think that it is our responsibility and we have no right to play with the future generation's environment", he told reporters.
Merkel praised India for implementing that climate pact very "intensively and in a very committed way".
She expressed as much in a speech in Munich, Germany, on Sunday when she said it's time for the country to "really take our fate into our own hands".
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