American presidents have been visiting Saudi Arabia for decades, and the trips have often produced unforgettable moments – some dramatically, others almost strange.
When President Trump returns to Saudi Arabia, there is a review of four moments of earlier presidential trips to visit the leader of the oil-rich golf state.
2022: The bidfist bead
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia seemed before President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Visited Jeddah in 2022.
Mr. Biden, as a candidate in 2019, had sworn to transform Saudi Arabia into a “Paria” Jamal KhashoggiWhat the CIA said it was ordered by the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
But when Mr. Biden worked in 2022 to manage the oil prices that took the full invasion of Ukraine after the full invasion of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, the president started another attack. Mr. Biden, who arrived easily in the Royal Palace, gave the crown prince a fist base as A Bank of the cameras rolled.
The Saudi government quickly Posted a picture The fist bead on social media. Mr. Biden later told the reporters that he had confronted Prince Mohammed privately because of the murder and that the prince “basically said he was not personally responsible for it.”
Back in Washington, Mr. Biden became impatient when he pressed on the fist. “Why don’t you talk about something that counts?” He blamed a reporter.
In months, Mr. Biden admitted that the trip had not produced the increase in Saudi oil production that he had been looking for.
2017: Trump and the ball
It looked like something from a children’s film.
During a visit to Riad, the Saudi capital, at the beginning of his first term, Mr. Trump stated Even hands On a bright white ball.
Next to him, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi from Egypt also put his hands on the ball. A picture of the men who touched the ball – with the First Lady Melania Trump, who looked at social media, with Memes multipliering in a short time.
A meme compared the picture to that of Saruman, the villain “Lord of the Rings”, which knocked into a Seehandstein.
But the ball in Riad was not magical.
The ball was a translucent globe, apparently decorative, in a facility with computer terminals and devoted itself to combating extremist ideology.
1974: Nixon says: “We need wisdom”
President Richard M. Nixon met a warm reception in Jeddah through the Middle East in the spring of 1974 in Jeddah.
Nixon came in the hope of encouraging the country, reducing oil prices, as can be seen from the passages of his memoir published by Richard Nixon Foundation.
However, he also came with another goal – and pushed Saudi Arabia to use his considerable regional influence to urge peace in the Middle East.
In comments in the State Palace, he emphasized his hosts that he had not only come to win cheaper oil.
“We can use oil, but we need more, a little more than oil,” said the president. “We need wisdom.”
(1945: RooseveltgibteinenenRollstuhlfühler
Although he did not travel to Saudi soil, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz Al-Saud, part of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Roosevelt enchanted the king who tried to go by Presentation to him the gift of a wheelchair.
