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I mean, why would she care? He's was a US business man and she was a German politician. They would have little to no overlap and even when he became president she had more to do than spend the days of would take going over his list of bullshittery. It's easy to see immediately that he is a terrible person, realizing that he's quite literally toxic takes actually investing time into.
That's why you have advisors, secretaries and other people who are there to help you learn about someone without you having to spend days on it. Especially when said someone is a president of an entire country, and a rather important one.
Agreed, and the passing from the article implies that she was prepped and had an idea that he was shitty then realized how terrible a person he is once he met her. He's in the news so much over the last 8-9 years but before 2015/2016 most people knew fairly little about him unless you read his biography which his biographer has come out and said it's very sanitized.
One would expect that any competent national leader would've requested an intelligence folder about Trum,p at the lastest when he was elected POTUS, and this being Germany, they have the capability to produce one which is very complete and beyond what we common mortals can deduce about the man's nature.
Whilst a politician in such a high position in a country isn't necessarilly more capable of analysing things than a common mortal (though it's logical to expect they're significantly better at judging people than most, since that's a requirement in their profession and to reach such a high position they must be top performers at it), they most certainly have access to much better and deeper information than any of us and to people who can do the analysing for them.