American presidents have been visiting Saudi Arabia for decades and the journeys have often produced memorable moments – some dramatic, others downright strange.
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While President Trump returns to Saudi Arabia, here is a retrospective at four moments of previous presidential trips to visit leaders of the oil-rich Gulf state.
2022: De Bult
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Aarabia seemed to be expected for President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Visited Jeddah in 2022.
Mr Biden had sworn Saudi Arabia as a candidate in 2019 to turn into a “paria” about the murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal KhashoggiThe CIA said it was ordered by the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman.
But when Mr Biden worked in 2022 to manage oil prices, which enriched after the full invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the president took another tack. Arriving in the Royal Palace, Mr. Biden, somewhat grinning, gave the crown prince a fist bump as a Cameras sofa Rold.
The Saudi government fast have posted an image From the fist hump on social media. Mr. Biden later told reporters that he had confronted Prince Mohammed privately with the murder and that the prince “in fact said he was not personally responsible for it.”
Back in Washington, Mr. Biden became impatient when it was pressed on the fist. “Why don’t you talk about something that matters?” He reprimanded a reporter.
Within a few months, Mr Biden acknowledged that the journey had not produced the increase in Saudi oil production that he had searched.
2017: Trump and De Bol
It looked like something from a children’s film.
During a visit to Riyad, the Saudi capital, early in his first term, Mr. Trump found Hand lays hands On a glowing white orb.
In addition to him, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi van Egypt also put their hands on the atmosphere. An image of the men who touch the bulb – with the First Lady, Melania Trump, looking – to – spread on a large scale on social media, with memes that multiply in short order.
One meme compared the image with that of Saruman, the villain of the “Lord of the Rings”, which extends a seeing stone.
But the ball in Riyad was not, it turned out to be magical.
De Bol was a translucent globe, apparently decorative, filled in a facility with computer terminals and dedicated to combating extremist ideology.
1974: Nixon says: ‘We need wisdom’
President Richard M. Nixon met a warm reception in Jeddah during a five-lying sweeping through the Middle East in the spring of 1974.
Nixon arrived in the hope of encouraging the country to help lower oil prices, according to passages of his memoirs published by the Richard Nixon Foundation.
But he also came up with a different purpose -pushing Saudi Aarabia to use his considerable regional influence to strive for peace in the middle.
In comments in the Staatspaleis, he emphasized on his hosts that he wasn’t just coming to win cheaper oil.
“We can use oil, but we need more, something much more than oil,” the president said. “We need wisdom.”
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Although he did not travel to Saudi soil, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz al-Saud, on an American warship in the large bitter lake, part of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Roosevelt charmed the king, who had trouble walking through Present him the gift of a wheelchair.
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