is someone who can deal very well with someone like president trump who of course makes these. having said that, angela merkel is someone who i ve seen be able to navigate these kind of waters. she went through really a cutthroat party that she was the head of where people trying to oust her from the party leadership when she was still the opposition is leader and she managed to go through that with her style that she has. so she will try to work with this administration, but at the same time, i think she s very realistic about the fact that it will be difficult and i think right now the germans feel misunderstood by this new u.s. president. and i want to give one example. he was saying how the germans are so bat d about exporting th cars to america and they say that we produced about 900,000 cars in america just in 2016 alone. so that is the gir merman