G20 summit: Trump goes golfing before the end, Scholz openly mocks - "A participant ..."

Corona and climate: There were thick boards to be drilled at the G20 summit at the weekend.

Donald Trump preferred to play golf - and gets ridicule from Germany.

Riyadh / Washington

- Big questions were on the agenda: Among other things,

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spoke

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the weekend

But in the end the assessment turned out to be quite different: Still-US President

complained about "unfair" rules - Chancellor

(CDU), on the other hand, was pleased about the "multilateral spirit" in the final declaration.

Trump also had

to endure mockery

from

.

Trump amuses Vice Chancellor: Scholz mocks the US President's appearance at the video summit

The

apparently had no great interest in the video channels of the G20 anyway.

Visibly bored, the US President was already sitting in the

at the start of the summit

.

His bent posture suggested that he was more concerned with the smartphone - and was floating in his Twitter bubble: At the same time, he spread

with allegations of electoral fraud in his defeat.

He also commented on the health of his son, who was infected with Corona according to media reports - but not on the specific content of the G20 summit.

Big voter fraud information coming out concerning Georgia.

Stay tuned!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 21, 2020

"One participant also took the opportunity to describe his own greatness again," mocked

(SPD) after the meeting - although he did not name one of the addressees of his criticism.

Trump has explained the "aggressive approach" of the

and stressed the successes in treatment options and vaccines that will "save millions of lives," said the White House.

The corona situation in the USA is of course precarious in reality.

Trump shoots across the G20 summit: Paris agreement just to "kill the American economy"

One result of the round: the leading economic powers want to work together to ensure the

around the world.

"We will spare no effort to ensure affordable and fair access for all people," said the summit's final declaration.

The states also resolved on Sunday to do everything possible to get the

going again.

As always in recent years, Trump stepped out of line

when it came to

.

He used his probably last appearance on a major international stage to attack the

to reduce global warming.

It was decided to "kill the American economy".

He described the international agreement against global warming as "very unfair and one-sided"

Merkel

said after the summit that there was no controversy about the topic at the meeting.

With a view to Trump's remarks on the climate protection agreement, she said: “From our point of view you have to say that we see it differently.” The Paris Agreement assigns different responsibilities to the different actors.

There is a

on the subject

, but it is not new, she said.

Donald Trump: Golf instead of summit - Merkel for new pandemic plan

After a good hour and a half of the summit, Trump seemed to have had enough.

He drove to his golf club in Sterling, near Virginia, for the rest of the day.

Photos show Trump a little later in a red blouson and a white cap playing golf - while Merkel and other heads of state and government discussed strategies to contain the corona pandemic.

At the meeting, Merkel also endorsed the idea of ​​a global treaty to combat future pandemics.

made a proposal that she supported, said the former CDU leader.

The contract could be a lesson from what one is currently experiencing.

The Chancellor will be in office on Sunday for exactly 15 years - but the EU in particular is currently in deep trouble.

Merkel looked at new corona measures in Germany in a press conference after the summit.

G20 summit: Few pictures from the meeting - Saudi Arabia's king has problems with the opening speech

The by

aligned

took place because of the Corona pandemic as a video switching.

It was different from all previous top meetings.

There was a lack of informal discussions on the sidelines, which are often more important than the big rounds.

Only a few images leaked out, including the appearance of the

, who as host had great difficulty delivering the ten-minute opening speech.

The 84-year-old mumbled and had to start again several times with heavy breath.

Together, the members of the G20 represent more than 85 percent of global economic output and two-thirds of the world's population.

According to forecasts by the US media, the Republican Trump lost the presidential election on November 3rd.

The Democratic election winner Joe Biden has already announced that the United States would rejoin the Paris Agreement under his leadership.

Biden is due to be sworn in as the new US President on January 20th.

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