--- title: Donald Trump and Angela Merkel Meet: Watch Live description: President Donald Trump is meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House today. Watch live here. canonical: https://time.com/4704956/angela-merkel-president-trump-white-house/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-17T11:47:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:48:35.339Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: President Trump and Angela Merkel at White House og:description: It's their first face-to-face press conference og:url: https://time.com/4704956/angela-merkel-president-trump-white-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fddce21abfd7ae6/6988bb02e20a87350ea942c0/gettyimages-642552548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3255 og:image:height: 1831 og:image:alt: 53rd Munich Security Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: President Trump and Angela Merkel at White House twitter:description: It's their first face-to-face press conference twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fddce21abfd7ae6/6988bb02e20a87350ea942c0/gettyimages-642552548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Trump Meets With Angela Merkel at the White House by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Mar 17, 2017 11:47 AM UTC  German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks at the 53rd Munich Security Conference (MSC) at Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 18, 2017. German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks at the 53rd Munich Security Conference (MSC) at Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 18, 2017.Andreas Gebert—Anadolu Agency/Getty Images by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Mar 17, 2017 11:47 AM UTC German Chancellor [Angela Merkel](http://time.com/4700020/trump-merkel-meeting-winter-storm-stella/) is meeting [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4704922/white-house-trump-wiretap-evidence/) at the White House today. The meeting was originally set for Tuesday but was pushed back due to snow. It is the two leaders’ first face-to-face press conference and the Chancellor’s first trip to the United States in more than two years. Trump will welcome the German leader at 11:20 am ET, followed by meetings at 11:30 and 11:45\. The President will then lead a roundtable discussion on vocational training with U.S. and German business leaders followed by a joint press conference at 1:20\. The pair will have lunch together at 1:50. > [](https://twitter.com/GermanyinUSA/status/842566864324743168) Merkel and Trump have a tense history. The U.S. president criticized the German chancellor’s handling of the Syrian refugee crisis and openly disagreed with TIME’s decision to name Merkel [“Person of the Year”](http://time.com/4142458/angela-merkel-beats-trump-for-person-of-the-year/) in 2015 instead of him. Merkel has been leading the European criticism of Trump’s controversial travel ban. But [White House officials have said](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/13/donald-trump-angela-merkel-germany-snow/99129464/) the pair will put their differences aside in order to “deepen already close German-American relations in the coming years.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4704956/angela-merkel-president-trump-white-house/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4704956/angela-merkel-president-trump-white-house/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Trump Meets With Angela Merkel at the White House","datePublished":"2017-03-17T11:47:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:48:35.339Z","description":"It's their first face-to-face press conference","url":"https://time.com/4704956/angela-merkel-president-trump-white-house/","keywords":["White House","Germany","angela merkel","onetime","president trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fddce21abfd7ae6/6988bb02e20a87350ea942c0/gettyimages-642552548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6fddce21abfd7ae6/6988bb02e20a87350ea942c0/gettyimages-642552548.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"53rd Munich Security Conference","caption":"53rd Munich Security Conference","creditText":"Andreas Gebert—Anadolu Agency/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/4704956/angela-merkel-president-trump-white-house/","name":"Watch Live: President Trump Meets With Angela Merkel at the White House"}}]}] ```