Mild in Mideast, Trump Is All Elbows in a Europe Eager to Jab Back
German news organizations reported that he had threatened to cut off imports of German cars, and several of them — with a touch of hyperbole resulting from an imprecise translation of Mr. Trump’s comments into German — said
that he had called Germans "very evil." As Mr. Trump showed up on Friday in an ancient amphitheater to be received by Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy, Mr. Cohn was busy cleaning up those comments.
Cohn said that There was a lot of what I would call pushing and prodding,
The leaders discussed terrorism, North Korea, Iran, trade and climate change, they said, and there was even hope
that the United States and Europe might stake out some common ground on the future of the Paris climate accord.
Though White House officials say he remains deeply skeptical about the Paris climate accord, Mr. Cohn said he listened carefully to the European leaders — yielding
the floor to several of them before he spoke — so he could hear their arguments about why the United States should not withdraw from the agreement.
Le Monde said that President Donald Trump said he was solicitous not to ‘admonish’ leaders of the Arab world,