{"id":364975,"date":"2018-06-11T06:24:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T05:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-merkel-says-trump-tweets-sobering-depressing\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T06:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T05:24:39","slug":"presstv-merkel-says-trump-tweets-sobering-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-merkel-says-trump-tweets-sobering-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Merkel says Trump tweets &#8216;sobering, depressing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the US President Donald Trump&#8217;s tweets concerning the G7 summit &#8220;sobering and a little depressing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard, it&#8217;s depressing this time, but that&#8217;s not the end&#8221; of the Group of Seven, said Merkel during a televised broadcast on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel added that Europe will implement counter-measures against US tariffs on steel and aluminum, similar to recent measures by Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we won&#8217;t let ourselves be ripped off again and again. Instead, we act then too,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the EU would also try to avoid retaliation by the US by imposing tariffs on cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, we&#8217;ll try and see if we can prevent this&#8230; And then hope that the EU will respond again in the same unity,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas slammed Trump for sending tweets about a recent meeting of G7 group of industrialized nations, saying those statements are further destroying trust between the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/10\/564594\/germany-us-trump-merkel-tweets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the US President Donald Trump&#8217;s tweets concerning the G7 summit &#8220;sobering and a little depressing.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s hard, it&#8217;s depressing this time, but that&#8217;s not the end&#8221; of the Group of Seven, said Merkel during a televised broadcast on Sunday night. Merkel added that Europe will implement counter-measures against US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}