拜登回忆录新节选：默克尔私下称特朗普「情绪化」，并问他为何着迷于普京等威权人物
美国前总统拜登在将于11月17日出版的回忆录《答应我，美国》（Promise Me, America）新公开节选中写道，德国前总理默克尔私下形容特朗普「情绪化」，说他行事像是被情绪牵着走、而不是按事实行事，并对他着迷于俄罗斯总统普京等带威权与独裁色彩的政治人物感到不解。
拜登写道，默克尔是在他2021年上任后两人的交谈中，坦率回顾了她自2017年1月特朗普入主白宫后与之打交道的难处。她记得特朗普在2017年3月她访问白宫时拒绝与她握手：当时摄影记者起哄让两人握手，她转身问「你想握个手吗」，特朗普却双手交叠坐着没有回应。
「她还纳闷，他为何会『着迷』于弗拉基米尔·普京和其他带『威权与独裁特质』的政治人物，」拜登写道，「那是一个我也解不开的谜。」这批节选由《新闻周刊》率先公开，是拜登回忆录节选系列的最新一层，此前公开的还有他与佩洛西决裂与和解、特朗普2021年留信等内容。
拜登在书中说，他上任之初的一项工作就是修复美国与传统盟友的关系。默克尔在她2024年出版的回忆录《自由》中写过，她起初把特朗普当作「一个完全正常的人」来打交道，后来觉得两人的互动像一场「你输我赢」的较量。
关联：拜登回忆录新节选：佩洛西台前称尊重他的决定、幕后全力运作逼他退选，两人事后以一顿意式午餐修复关系
（来源：《新闻周刊》）
New Biden Memoir Excerpt: Merkel Privately Called Trump “Emotional” and Wondered Why He Was Fascinated by Putin and Other Autocrats
In newly released excerpts from his memoir Promise Me, America, due out on November 17, former President Joe Biden writes that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel privately described Donald Trump as “emotional,” saying he appeared to be guided by his moods rather than by facts, and that she wondered at his fascination with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other politicians with autocratic traits.
Biden writes that Merkel spoke candidly in their conversations after he took office in 2021 about her difficult dealings with Trump after he entered the White House in January 2017. She recalled that Trump refused to shake her hand during her March 2017 White House visit: as photographers urged a handshake, she turned to him and asked, “Do you want to have a handshake?” and he remained seated with his hands clasped.
“She also wondered why he was 'fascinated' by Vladimir Putin and other politicians 'with autocratic and dictatorial traits,'” Biden writes. “That was a mystery I could not unravel.” The excerpts, first shared with Newsweek, are the latest layer of the memoir's rolling release, following earlier excerpts on his rift and reconciliation with Nancy Pelosi and the letter Trump left him in 2021.
Biden writes that repairing relations with traditional U.S. allies was one of his first tasks in office. In her own 2024 memoir, Freedom, Merkel recalled initially approaching Trump as though he were “someone completely normal,” and later feeling that their interactions were a competition: you or me.
(Source: Newsweek)
来源：《新闻周刊》
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图片来源：图：拜登与德国总理默克尔在白宫椭圆形办公室会面资料图。照片：美国总统办公室，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: File photo of Joe Biden meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office. Photo by the Office of the President of the United States, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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