This article is pure elitist globalist nonsense.  It can be safely ignored

The author claims that Trump's accusations of German currency manipulation and poor trade policy are wrong because "Germany has neither its own currency nor control over trade policy".

Wrong!  Germany is the biggest economy in the EU and has massive influence and control over the value of the Euro and EU trade policy.   The fact that the author doesn't understand this basic fact means that he doesn't know anything and this article can be dismissed.

Trump is President for a reason.  The elites and globalists don't want to know why Trump was elected, because that means they'll have to admit they're wrong. Trump is just getting started, the elites and globalists can kiss their cozy little rigged world goodbye.