Merkel's buddy-buddy relationship with Bush and Obam was over.  Confrontation not cooperation, would be the order of the day.
For now, Merkel herself is maintaining a stiff upper lip when it comes to the Trump administration.  Her meeting with Trump accomplished little other than an opportunity to probe the new president's intentions and ambitions first-hand.  The likelihood in coming years is that the two sides will continue to talk past each other.
It won't be the first time that Germany and America have experienced tensions.  They will finally ride it out.  Any one looking for a radical shift in the relations between the two countries is porbabloy fooling themselves.  It may well be a case when it comes to German-American relations of the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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