Mike stop projecting your view onto world leaders and go fact check your positions.
Merkel did not dismiss America spying on her as childish. She called it unacceptable and expelled the CIA Berlin station chief.
She cut the German contribution to NATO to the bone and the USA was forced into funding virtually the whole cost of NATO.
She did not cut Germany's contribution to NATO.
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2019_06/20190625_PR2019-069-EN.pdf
America comes no where close to paying for virtually the whole cost of NATO, it pays around 22% of the cost of it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44717074
In terms of the NATO agreement each member country must contribute 3,5% of their total budget to NATO.
Wrong the agreement was that NATO countries would commit to spending 2% of their GDP on defense.
When
Trump found out that on average the members contribution was less than
1,5% he told the member countries that he will limit the US contribution
to 3.5% and that would mean reduction of US troop presence in Europe
by 24 000 men. The NATO members had no option but to comply with the
3.5% clause - but hated Trump for doing that,You're getting mixed up. The 3.5% you keep referring was American defense spending in total in 2018, not just its NATO commitments. American spends vastly more on defense than other NATO counties but much of that money goes to non NATO deployments like South Korea, Japan and the middle east where as virtually all of the defense spending in European NATO member states goes to NATO. European members of NATO had actually started to increase their defense spending budgets in 2014 in response to Russia aggression in the Ukraine.
Trump exaggerated at the time claiming defense spending in the US was over 4% and was slightly off in his estimation of some European countries defense budgets. It could be argued that he succeed in getting other NATO countries to spend more and to match the US contribution to NATO while America's contribution to NATO would come down. So for example America will contribute 16% of NATO's budget down from 22% while Germany will match them going from 14% to 16%. However it doesn't seem to anything significantly more than what European NATO members previously agreed to do and none of these countries have committed to matching America's GPD expenditure on defense.
As for hating Trump, most European leader strongly disliked the man, the spat over NATO contributions may have contributed to their negative view of him but their was numerous other things they disliked about him.
There
was a number of other actions Trump did that was unpopular in Europe -
such as putting import duties on some products while the EU countries
out import duties on US exports, The leaders of the EU countries
knew Trump would act if they do things to the detriment of the USA. Trump started a trade war with the EU putting tariffs on EU products and accused them of being currency manipulators. He reneged on the Iran he signed with several European countries. He withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. He leaned towards the UK side in Brexit negations irking the bulk of EU member states. The UK government laughed at him when he suggested they should sue the EU in the Brexit negotiations. He's ridiculous behavior toward Denmark over them rejecting the idea of the US purchasing Greenland. His attempts to bully European leaders like May and Merkel in one on one conversations. His ignorance on European affairs, on a meeting with the Irish Prime Minister in comments on border issues in Ireland arising from Brexit he compared the border situation there to the American-Mexican border and commented "I think it will all work out very well, and also for you with your wall, your border," before the rather uncomfortable looking Irish PM had to gently remind him that Ireland did not want a border under any circumstance. Other examples of his ignorance would be him not realizing that the the UK is a nuclear power and that Finland is not part of Russia. Or that bizarre time he was watching cable TV and started tweeting the next day about terrible things that where happening in Sweden to which the Swedes where like what the hell are you talking about?. His buddy buddy act with Putin didn't exactly endear him to European leaders either, Trump praising Putin the man behind the invasion and partial occupation of a European state and who's agents had conducted assassinations in European states via the use of chemical nerve agents.
They
also know what Biden is up to and they will use it to their
advantage. Not an iota of respect - rather knowing Biden is a
weakling and corrupt to boot they will take maximum advantage of the
situation. A typical example us the recent sanctions against Russia
based on a lie that Russia payed a booty to the Taliban to kill US
troops in Afghanistan, The secret services in Europe knew that it is a
lie and said so in the past. The EU countries are strengthening trade
with Russia and not applying the sanctions Biden imposed,Sorry but most European leaders don't operate on conspiracy theories (Viktor Orban would be an exception) . They have far more respect for Biden than Trump who was just seen as an awful leader and an awful individual. Even quite right wing groups in Europe where not overly fond of Trump as while they may have agreed with some of his policies his bed side manners where consider far too distasteful.
Care to provide a source on where European intelligence agencies said the Russia bounties on US troops was not true/accurate?
As for EU countries increasing trade with Russia, again can you provide evidence?. You could argue the German's are with Nord Stream 2 but on the whole all I see is European nations renewing sanctions and actually adding more over the Navalny situation in conjunction with Washington.
So respect count is ZERO - disdain is 100%,The disdain was for Trump. With Biden they can have a working relationship with someone who isn't a temperamental, self aggrandizing idiot who was completely out of his depth on the world stage.