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President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a trip to Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Saturday, June 9, 2018, at Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, in Canada. (AP Photo/Evan... (Associated Press) 
  
 President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a trip to Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Saturday, June 9, 2018, at Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, in Canada. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Associated Press) 
  
 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took more swipes at Canada and its prime minister over trade issues as he settled in for a summit with North Korea in Singapore, contending that "Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal." 
  
 Trump roiled the weekend Group of Seven meeting of industrialized nations in Canada by agreeing to a group statement on trade only to withdraw from it while flying to Asia. He complained that he had been blindsided by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's criticism of his tariff threats at a summit-ending news conference. In tweets, Trump insulted Trudeau as "dishonest" and "weak." 
  
 The attack on a longtime ally and its leader drew sharp criticism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who also attended the summit, told German public television that she found Trump's tweet disavowing the G-7 statement "sobering" and "a little depressing." She also said the European Union would "act" against the U.S. trade measures. 
  
 Unbowed, Trump tweeted anew Monday morning from Singapore, repeating his criticism of U.S. trade policies with Canada — he also took aim at Germany — in a multitweet rant that went beyond 200 words all told. At one point he wrote, "Justin acts hurt when called out!" 
  
 "Why should I, as President of the United States, allow countries to continue to make Massive Trade Surpluses, as they have for decades, while our Farmers, Workers & Taxpayers have such a big and unfair price to pay?" he tweeted. 
  
 Yet his top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, downplayed the severity of the rift. Addressing reporters in Singapore ahead of Trump's summit Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Pompeo said he was "unconcerned" that Trump's treatment of Canada — a close ally — boded poorly for his ability to forge peace with a longtime U.S. adversary. 
  
 "There are always irritants in relationships," Pompeo said, adding that without partners like Canada, "we wouldn't be in this place, we wouldn't have this diplomatic opportunity" with the North. 
  
 Still, other Trump advisers had taken up the attack in appearances on Sunday's news shows, leveling more withering and unprecedented criticism against Trudeau, branding him a back-stabber unworthy of Trump's time. 
  
 "There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door," Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said on "Fox News Sunday." 
  
 Navarro said Trump "did the courtesy to Justin Trudeau to travel up to Quebec for that summit. He had other things, bigger things, on his plate in Singapore. ... He did him a favor, and he was even willing to sign that socialist communique. And what did Trudeau do as soon as the plane took off from Canadian airspace? Trudeau stuck our president in the back. That will not stand." 
  
 Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, suggested Trump saw Trudeau as trying to weaken his hand before the summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, saying the president won't "let a Canadian prime minister push him around. ... Kim must not see American weakness." Trudeau pulled a "sophomoric political stunt for domestic consumption" that amounted to "a betrayal," said Kudlow, who appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" and CBS' "Face the Nation." 
  
 In response to the initial tweets critical of her country and prime minister, Canada's foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, said her nation "does not conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks." 
  
 Trudeau, who had said at the news conference that Canada would retaliate for new U.S. tariffs, didn't respond to questions about Trump when the prime minister arrived at a Quebec City hotel Sunday for meetings with other world leaders. Freeland later told reporters that "we don't think that's a useful or productive way to do business." 
  
 A Trudeau spokesman, Cameron Ahmad, said Saturday night that Trudeau "said nothing he hasn't said before — both in public and in private conversations" with Trump. 
  
 And Roland Paris, a former foreign policy adviser to Trudeau, jabbed at Trump on Twitter: "Big tough guy once he's back on his airplane. Can't do it in person. ... He's a pathetic little man-child." 
  
 Trudeau said he had reiterated to Trump, who left the G-7 meeting before it ended, that tariffs would harm industries and workers on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. Trudeau told reporters that imposing retaliatory measures "is not something I relish doing" but that he wouldn't hesitate to do so because "I will always protect Canadian workers and Canadian interests." 
  
 The Americans' criticism of Trudeau left a former Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, stumped. "I don't understand the obsession with trade relations with Canada," he said on Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures," given that Canada is the biggest single buyer of American goods and services in the world. From promoting democracy and to fighting terrorism, "we're on the same page. We're the closest partners in the world, and you don't want to see a dispute over one particular issue poison everything." 
  
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 Lucey reported from Singapore and Gillies from Quebec City. Associated Press writer Josh Lederman in Singapore contributed to this report. ||||| His “retraction, per tweet, is … disillusioning and depressing,” Merkel told German talkshow host Anne Will | Zick Jochen-Pool/Getty Images Angela Merkel on Trump’s G7 show: It’s ‘depressing’ ‘We don’t let ourselves be taken advantage of again and again,’ chancellor says. 
  
 BERLIN — At the end of a long weekend of rhetorical salvos over the G7 summit’s chaotic ending, German Chancellor Angela Merkel added her voice to the chorus, saying she found Donald Trump’s actions “sobering and a bit depressing,” while calling for more civility in international exchanges. 
  
 “The situation isn’t very nice,” Merkel told German public television in a lengthy interview. “I don’t think that ratcheting up the rhetoric is going to improve things.” 
  
 While Merkel, who has been frustrated over the past year by Trump’s decision to withdraw from international agreements including the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord, said she intends to engage the president, she voiced a deepening disappointment over her failure to win him over to her point of view. 
  
 “Sometimes I get the impression that the U.S. president believes that only one side wins and the other loses,” Merkel said, adding that she believes in “win-win” situations. 
  
 Her comments, which echo those of France’s Emmanuel Macron and others, highlight a growing transatlantic estrangement that Europe insists it doesn’t want but has been powerless to stop. 
  
 Merkel’s comments followed Trump’s abrupt decision via Twitter early Sunday to cancel his support for the just-agreed G7 communiqué, apparently out of anger over comments made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference. 
  
 Trump’s tweets triggered a bizarre string of appearances by his surrogates on American television. Top Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Trudeau “stabbed us in the back,” suggesting that the Canadian leader’s criticism of Trump’s trade policies undermined the president before his summit meeting with North Korea. 
  
 Peter Navarro, another top counselor, abandoned any semblance of decorum, suggesting “there is a special place in hell” for Trudeau. 
  
 The latter comment prompted European Council President Donald Tusk to quip “there is a special place in heaven” for Trudeau for his organization of the G7. 
  
 Merkel said that despite the tensions at the summit’s conclusion, she remains committed to the transatlantic relationship, while sounding a note of caution. 
  
 “There are good reasons on our side to continue to fight for it but we can’t count on it anymore,” she said. 
  
 Asked why she allowed Trump to run rings around her, Merkel pointed to the EU’s retaliatory tariffs and said, “We don’t let ourselves be taken advantage of again and again.” 
  
 Merkel said she is open to Trump’s idea of eliminating tariffs between G7 members, but that such a goal would require intense negotiations and “take a long time.” 
  
 Getting defensive 
  
 Merkel suggested the tensions with Washington would continue to fuel a reappraisal of Europe’s security needs. For the Continent to succeed in becoming less dependent on the U.S., European countries would have to become “more loyal” to the EU, which has to develop “its own strategic culture.” 
  
 In that regard, she pledged to spend more on defense. The U.S. has long criticized Germany for its meager defense budget, which stood at about 1.1 percent of GDP in 2017, well below NATO’s 2 percent target. Trump has raised the issue most forcefully, however, regularly taking Berlin to task over the military budget and Merkel said he “had a point.” 
  
 She said that even though such spending is unpopular with Germans, it is necessary, suggesting she would make a harder push to accelerate spending in the coming years. 
  
 On the current trajectory, Berlin’s defense budget is expected to hit 1.5 percent of GDP in 2025 and 2 percent by 2030. Under an agreement reached among NATO countries in 2014, members pledged to reach the 2 percent goal by 2024. 
  
 Nein to a G8 
  
 Merkel also said she doesn’t support Trump’s suggestion that Russia rejoin the G7. While Russia is an important interlocutor when it comes to security questions in Europe and the Middle East, there’s no justification for it to join the forum, the chancellor said, adding she “wasn’t convinced” by Trump’s arguments. 
  
 Merkel said she is disappointed that Italy’s new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, endorsed Trump’s call on Russia before consulting with other European powers. 
  
 “If we want Europe to appear strong, then we have to find compromises amongst ourselves,” she said in a swipe at Italy’s new populist government. 
  
 In the wide-ranging interview, Merkel repeated her support for a European asylum system, saying she is counting on Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to make headway on the proposal during his country’s EU presidency, which begins in July. 
  
 She also defended her own government’s handling of the administration of refugee cases. A series of recent revelations exposed deep problems in the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, going back several years. Merkel took responsibility for the problems and pledged to get the situation under control. She said her goal is to restore public trust in her government’s ability to manage the refugee influx, which she acknowledged has been “damaged.” 
  
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 German Chancellor Angela Merkel participates in the G-7 Working Session with Outreach Countries and International Organizations at the G-7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)f (Associated Press) 
  
 German Chancellor Angela Merkel participates in the G-7 Working Session with Outreach Countries and International Organizations at the G-7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)f (Associated Press) German Chancellor Angela Merkel participates in the G-7 Working Session with Outreach Countries and International Organizations at the G-7 Summit in La Malbaie, Quebec on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Sean... (Associated Press) 
  
 FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel found the contentious Group of Seven summit with U.S. President Donald Trump a "sobering" and "depressing" experience but said European leaders won't be "taken advantage of" on trade. 
  
 She conceded in an interview on German public television Sunday that the meeting's outcome "wasn't a great thing." 
  
 "I have spoken of a sobering experience, which for me is a lot," she added. 
  
 Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and the other leaders clashed with Trump over steel and aluminum tariffs as well as his decision to abandon a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program. 
  
 The group managed a common statement in which they agreed to disagree on some issues, only to have Trump disavow the document in a tweet after leaving the meeting. 
  
 Merkel said that "taking it back by tweet was of course sobering and also a little depressing." 
  
 She said the European Union would "act" against the U.S. trade measures, which European leaders regard as going against the rules of the World Trade Organization. |||||
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Angela Merkel has called President Trump's decision to to disavow the only just agreed upon G-7 statement "a little depressing." Per the AP, the German chancellor found the contentious Group of Seven summit with the US president a "sobering" experience but said European leaders won't be "taken advantage of" on trade. She conceded in an interview on German public television that the meeting's outcome "wasn't a great thing." Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and the other leaders clashed with Trump over steel and aluminum tariffs as well as his decision to abandon a deal with Iran to limit its nuclear program. The group managed a common statement in which they agreed to disagree on some issues, only to have Trump disavow the document. "Taking it back by tweet was of course sobering and also a little depressing," she said. According to Politico, Merkel's frustration appears to stem from what she sees as Trump's unwillingness to compromise. “Sometimes I get the impression that the US president believes that only one side wins and the other loses,” Merkel reportedly said. Merkel's comments come on the heels of similar sentiments from French leaders. Trump's decision to walk back his previous support of the statement of shared goals and priorities came after he complained that host country Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blindsided him with criticism of his tariff threats at a summit-ending news conference. Following the president's tweets Sunday, he tweeted anew Monday morning from Singapore, repeating his criticism of US trade policies with Canada and, this time, also calling out Germany.