‘Nepotism’ Family accused of behaving like royalty

Germany’s foreign minister has accused Donald Trump and his relatives of behaving like members of a “royal family”.

Just days after Angela Merkel and Ivanka Trump, the US president’s daughter, shared a stage in Berlin, Sigmar Gabriel said: “There are things that are strange to me, for example the visit of his daughter to Germany, which was treated almost like a world event. “This mix of politics with family and business smacks of nepotism and would be unimaginable here.

“It always bothers me when members of a family, who have never been elected, show up suddenly as official state representatives and are treated almost as if they were members of a royal family.”