President Donald Trump, center, joins other world leaders for a group photo they attend a cultural performance amid the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 16, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MARK LANDLER When Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany presented President Donald Trump with a soccer jersey emblazoned with the number 47 on Tuesday morning, it was the kind of gesture that a foreign leader might have made during his first term: flattering, emollient and calculated to…
