while she stood waiting and reportedly saying that she was an “unfuckable lardass.” Trump refused to shake her hand, and Putin made her wait for hours to see him and unleashed his dog near her to trigger her fear of canines. “I understand why he has to do this, to prove he’s a man,” said Merkel of this last episode. “He’s afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this.”13
