One of the advantages for Theresa May in being the first foreign leader to visit the Trump White House is that other European government are eager for information about what he actually plans to do. Both Handelsblatt and Spiegel have good pieces detailing the German government’s concerns about its lack of contact with, and information about, the new administration.
Spiegel reports that an offer from Angela Merkel’s team for her to travel to the US at short notice to meet the new president has not yet received a reply. While the German Ambassador to the US’s last meeting with Jared Ksuhner, Trump’s son in law and—by general agreement—the most powerful figure in the new White House, ended with Kushner asking, ‘What can you do for us?’ So desperate has the Merkel Chancellery become for tips on the new president’s thinking that her staff have taken to passing round a 1990 issue of Playboy in an attempt to understand his thinking on trade.
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