To the writer of this article. Donald Trump neglected to mention how euphoric Egyptians were when the president back then in 2013 was ousted. Nor did he mention that the demonstrations he is speaking of were wreaking havoc in the Raba area; I wonder if demonstrators would be allowed to do the same in your country? He also neglected to mention that the dissenters he speaks of are affiliated to a terrorist group that has killed many Egyptians. Wake up and see the reality.
The rest of the article is on track.
Politico
President Donald Trump walks with Saudi King Salman to a photo with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit on May 21, 2017, in Riyadh. | AP PhotoRIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Donald Trump, a homebody by nature who spent four months in office before making his first trip abroad, said Sunday that he is planning a return trip to the Middle East, to visit Egypt.
“We will absolutely be putting that on the list very soon,” Trump said of an upcoming trip to Egypt, during a bilateral meeting with the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, at the Ritz Hotel in Riyadh. The visit would mark the latest step in a major reset in American relations with Egypt — and a tighter embrace by the Trump administration of the authoritarian regime.
In the Sunday bilateral meeting, Trump did not bring up Sisi’s military junta that overthrew the democratically elected regime in 2013. Nor did he mention the demonstrators that the Sisi regime gunned down, or the Egyptian president’s crackdown on political dissenters.
He did, however, comment on Sisi’s shoes. “Love your shoes. Boy, those shoes. Man,” he said. It was not clear what, exactly, appealed to Trump about Sisi’s black men’s dress shoes.
“We’ve really been through a lot together, positively,” Trump said.
Trump met with Sisi in April, in the Oval Office, Sisi’s first official visit to the White House since his election in 2014. President Barack Obama never invited Sisi to the White House.
“Egypt is secure and stable and is going very well with the cooperation of the United States,” Sisi said, speaking through a translator.
Trump’s next trip abroad is expected to be to the G20 conference in Hamburg in July. He did not say when he would be visiting Egypt, but he praised Sisi as his “friend,” and thanked him for helping organize the release of an American aide worker, Aya Hijazi, who spent three years in an Egyptian prison for human trafficking charges that were widely condemned by human rights groups. That release has been touted by the Trump administration — which has generally turned a blind eye to human rights violations around the world while heaping praise on authoritarian leaders — as an example of Trump’s behind-the-scenes approach.
In the warm meeting between the two leaders, Sisi said to Trump, “you are a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible.”
“I agree!” Trump responded, eliciting chuckles from the aides in the room.
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