Donald Trump is planning to meet with the president of Egypt in New York after international diplomacy gaffe visit to Mexico where he promoted a border wall and met with the Mexican president.
According to Daily Mail, Trump on Monday was unusually tight-lipped when asked about the meeting with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, which takes place as world leaders descend on New York for the annual meeting for the UN General Assembly.
‘I don’t want comment on who I’m meeting with,’ he told ‘Fox and Friends.’
‘I will say with all of the folks being in New York, I made a lot of calls from a lot of different people on the basis that I’m doing well and, you know, they seem to think it’s important to maybe meet me,’ Trump said.
Trump continued: ‘But I don’t want to comment specifically on who. But a couple of people are coming over. I’ve already met with a couple.’
The meeting was reported by Reuters.
Trump’s meeting will be his first chance to try to show his diplomatic skills since his surprise trip to Mexico, where he met with president Enrique Nieto Pena. The two gave a joint press conference afterward, but Trump faced criticism when it was revealed he failed to press Pena Nieto on making Mexico pay for the wall during their private meeting.
Making Mexico pay is one of Trump’s main campaign planks, and he mentions it at his rallies.
Pressed on Fox about whether he has met with other world leaders, Trump used couched language more typical as coming from the tightly-controlled White House briefing room than from his usual wandering TV call-in appearances.
‘I just don’t wanna comment on specifically who they are,’ Trump said, adding that he thinks he’ll be able to share the information later. ‘Lets put it this way: it’ll be a very interesting day or two,’ he said.
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