German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is in bed with Turkish dictator and blackmail artist Recep Tayyip Erdogan lectured Donald Trump in a half-baked, half-assed congratulations letter to Trump.

At the heart of the letter, Merkel set the tone for cooperation with Trump. She ought to be worried about her own bedfellows, not lecturing others with "conditions".

It is unprecedented for a German chancellor to lecture a US president-elect on democratic values — but Angela Merkel has been so shaken by Donald Trump's victory that she did exactly that in her letter of congratulation to the man heading for the White House.

"Germany and America are bound by common values," she wrote. "Democracy, freedom, as well as respect for the rule of law and the dignity of each and every person regardless of their origin, skin colour, creed, gender, sexual orientation or political views." Future co-operation, the EU's most powerful leader added, would be "based on these values".