The US presidents have been visiting Saudi Arabia for decades, and trips have often produced memorable moments, some dramatic, other strangely strange.
As President Trump returns to Saudi Arabia, there is a look at four previous presidential trips to visit the leaders of the Gulf Rico Petroleum Gulf.
2022: The fist bidy
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia seemed to be withered to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. visited Jeddah in 2022.
Mr. Biden, as a candidate in 2019, had promised to convert Saudi Arabia into a “Paria” for the murder of the Washington’s journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who the CIA said he ordered the prince of the Saudi crown, Mohammed Bin Salman.
But as Mr. Biden worked in 2022 to administer oil prices, which increased after the large -scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine, President Tok a different tactic. Upon arriving at the Royal Palace, Mr. Biden, smiling slightly, cools to the heir prince a fist when he shot a camera bank.
The Saudi government quickly published an image of the fist on social networks. Later, Biden told journalists that Prince Mohammed had faced privately about the murder, and that the prince “basically said he was not personally responsible for it.”
Back in Washington, Mr. Biden becomes impatient when he was pressed on the fist. “Why don’t you talk about something that matters?” Hello, reporter.
In a matter of months, Mr. Biden acknowledged that the trip had not produced the increase in the production of Saudi oil he had sought.
2017: Trump and the orb
It seemed some of a movie for children.
Duration A visit to Riad, the Saudi capital, at the beginning of its first term, Trump was found in the hands of a bright white orb.
Beside him, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President Abdel Fattaah el-Sisi or Egypt also placed their hands in the sphere. An image of men playing the orb, with the first lady, Melania Trump, looking, circulates widely on social networks, with memes multiplied in a short time.
A meme liked the image of Saruman’s, the villain of the “lord of the rings”, touching a stone.
But the orb in Riad was not, it turned out, magical.
The sphere was a translucent balloon, apparently decorative, in an installation full of computer terminals and dedicated to fighting extremist ideology.
1974: Nixon says: ‘We need wisdom’
President Richard M. Nixon with a warm reception in Jeddah during a scanning five nations through the Middle East in the spring of 1974.
Nixon Artó with the hope of encouraging the country to help reduce oil prices, agree on the passages of its memoirs published by the Richard Nixon Foundation.
But it also came with another goal: to push Saudi Arabia to use its considerable regional influence to boost peace in the Middle East.
In comments at the State Palace, he emphasized his hosts that did not only gain cheaper oil.
“We can use oil, but we need more, something much more than oil,” said the president. “We need wisdom.”
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He thought he was not traveling to the Saudi land, President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz Al-Saud, on an American warship in the Great Lake Bitter, part of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Roosevelt loved the king, who fought to walk, presenting him the gift of a wheelchair.