Tips for Leaders Meeting Trump: Keep It Short and Give Him a Win -

RisingWorld 2017-05-24

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Tips for Leaders Meeting Trump: Keep It Short and Give Him a Win -
By PETER BAKERMAY 18, 2017
WASHINGTON — As Saudi Arabia’s leaders prepared to make a pitch to the White House for a visit by President Trump, a PowerPoint presentation
was put together complete with slides describing Saudi demographics, investments in the United States and ambitious plans for reform.
Just this week, he hosted at the White House the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates, the president of Turkey
and the president of Colombia, while talking by phone with leaders like King Abdullah II of Jordan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
“He values personal relationships,” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia said after
a personal meeting in New York where the two men smoothed over an initial testy phone call.
During his first 100 days in office, he hosted 16 meetings with foreign leaders and, as of Monday, had made 76 phone calls to 43 leaders.
And the British ended up tutoring the Trump team on how to choreograph a foreign leader visit — the
format for meetings, who would be in which one, how they would make statements to the media.
The Saudis scored their own coup by persuading Mr. Trump to make Saudi Arabia his first foreign destination as president, beating Mexico
and Canada, which have traded that honor since the 1970s.
That’s just been his business style.”
The British lapped the field by maneuvering to make Mrs. May the first foreign leader to meet with Mr. Trump after the inauguration.

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