--- title: Trump Merkel Meeting Postponed Due to Winter Storm Stella description: The meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump has been postponed due to winter storm Stella. canonical: https://time.com/4700020/trump-merkel-meeting-winter-storm-stella/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-13T20:09:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:49:09.938Z article:section: Politics og:title: German Chancellor Angela Merkel Postpones Meeting with President Trump og:description: Thanks to winter storm Stella og:url: https://time.com/4700020/trump-merkel-meeting-winter-storm-stella/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f55ee8a4df514f1/6988be2ffb4eacf73889119c/trump-merkel-phone-call.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Speaks With German Chancellor Angela Merkel By Telephone og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: German Chancellor Angela Merkel Postpones Meeting with President Trump twitter:description: Thanks to winter storm Stella twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f55ee8a4df514f1/6988be2ffb4eacf73889119c/trump-merkel-phone-call.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # German Chancellor Angela Merkel Postpones Meeting with President Trump  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Mar 13, 2017 8:09 PM UTC  President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House, January 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. Merkel's meeting at the White House has been postponed to Friday March 17 because of weather. President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House, January 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. Merkel's meeting at the White House has been postponed to Friday March 17 because of weather.Drew Angerer—Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Mar 13, 2017 8:09 PM UTC German Chancellor [Angela Merkel](http://time.com/4698352/donald-trump-angela-merkel-vladimir-putin/)‘s meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House has been postponed thanks to [winter storm Stella](http://time.com/4699449/winter-storm-stella-noreaster/), White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced at his daily briefing Monday. Merkel and Trump were scheduled to meet on Tuesday, March 14\. The two spoke by phone and agreed it should be postponed to Friday, said Spicer. Thousands of flights have [already been cancelled](http://time.com/money/4699779/winter-storm-stella-flight-cancellations/) ahead of the snowstorm. The President has been critical of Merkel’s willingness to bring refugees into Germany in the past; he tweeted in December 2015 that she was “ruining the country.” Shortly after Trump’s [first immigration ban](http://time.com/4660428/donald-trump-federal-judge-blocks-immigration-order/), Merkel got on a call with Trump to “explain the obligations of the refugee convention to the new president,” according to the [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/29/merkel-explains-geneva-refugee-convention-to-trump-in-phone-call). While a press release for the call did not mention the ban, it did mention NATO and an intention to “deepen bilateral relations in the coming years,” the Guardian reported. Trump is also interested in Merkel’s advice on how to [approach working with Russia,](http://time.com/4698352/donald-trump-angela-merkel-vladimir-putin/) including Russian President Vladimir Putin. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4700020/trump-merkel-meeting-winter-storm-stella/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4700020/trump-merkel-meeting-winter-storm-stella/"},"headline":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel Postpones Meeting with President Trump","datePublished":"2017-03-13T20:09:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:49:09.938Z","description":"Thanks to winter storm Stella","url":"https://time.com/4700020/trump-merkel-meeting-winter-storm-stella/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f55ee8a4df514f1/6988be2ffb4eacf73889119c/trump-merkel-phone-call.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f55ee8a4df514f1/6988be2ffb4eacf73889119c/trump-merkel-phone-call.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Speaks With German Chancellor Angela Merkel By Telephone","caption":"President Trump Speaks With German Chancellor Angela Merkel By Telephone","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4700020/trump-merkel-meeting-winter-storm-stella/","name":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel Postpones Meeting with President Trump"}}]}] ```