President Trump meets Germany’s Merkel

President Trump welcomes his second major European leader of the week Friday, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to the White House for meetings.

Even amid their very friendly public appearances, the differences between Trump and French President Macron were evident this week: on Iran, their world view, trade and climate change.

And Trump doesn’t share the same outwardly warm relationship with Merkel, though he did tweet this morning that he’s looking forward to the visit.

The trappings of this will be noticeably different than Macron’s — no pomp and circumstance-filled arrival ceremony, no helicopter tour of Washington or trip to Mt. Vernon, and no State Dinner.

This will be a handshake at the door, a meeting in the Oval Office and a Cabinet Room working lunch.

But the goal is the same: to bring Trump around to re-engaging with Europe — and the world — on everything from the Iran nuclear deal to preventing tariffs, and in doing so, avoid triggering a trade war.

When we’ll see them: President Trump and Chancellor Merkel will hold a joint news conference at 1:50pm, moved from the Rose Garden into the East Room. We’ll also see the arrival on the White House driveway live at 11:40am, and tape turn of an 11:45am spray in the Oval Office.

With analysis by Atika Shubert

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