OPINION: President Trump’s Mideast Contradictions

Posted on AllSides May 23rd, 2017
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President Trump in Saudia Arabia
OPINION

Given President Trump’s appetite for spectacle, Saudi Arabia could not have been a more fitting opening for his first overseas trip. The palaces, the fancy robes of King Salman and his court, the sword dance, even the creepy glowing orb used to inaugurate Saudi Arabia’s new counterterrorism center, seemed just the right props for a former television celebrity. His hosts went out of their way to indulge his weakness for flattery and deal-making.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/donald-trump-middle-east-trip.html

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