--- 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. 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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"}}]}] ```