No match for Merkel

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s niece believes German Chancellor Angela Merkel is far smarter than her uncle.

“The woman could run circles around him intellectually,” Mary Trump said in an interview ahead of the publication of her tell-all book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, in Germany on

August 12. “I think he hates that,” she added.

Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and daughter of the president’s eldest brother, Fred.