Posted on 09/24/2019 7:22:21 PM PDT by ransomnote
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Remarks by President Trump and President El-Sisi of Egypt Before Bilateral Meeting | New York, NY FOREIGN POLICY
InterContinental New York Barclay New York, New York
4:36 P.M. EDT
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, thank you very much. It’s an honor to be with my friend, the President of Egypt. And he is a real leader. He’s done some things that are absolutely amazing in a short period of time. When he took over not so long ago, it was in turmoil. And it’s not in turmoil now.
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PRESIDENT EL-SISI: (As interpreted.) I thank you, Mr. President. It’s a great pleasure to have this meeting with you. And this is the second meeting in less than two months. This speaks volumes —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes.
PRESIDENT EL-SISI: — of the level and depth of understanding, and the great appreciation that I hold for your country.
Your Excellency, let me go on the record to stress the wisdom in dealing with — handling the military option and in dealing with Egypt and especially challenges.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Q Mr. President, are you worried about the demonstration in Egypt that’s calling for President El-Sisi to go?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Louder, please.
Q Are you worried about demonstrations in Egypt that’s been calling for President —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Demonstrations?
Q Yes, in Egypt, that’s been calling for President El-Sisi to go.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No, I guess everybody has demonstrations. Even your best friend in the whole world, President Obama, he had a lot of demonstrations.
No, I’m not — I’m not concerned with it. Egypt has a great leader. He’s highly respected. He’s brought order. Before he was here, there was very little order. There was chaos. And so I’m not worried about that at all.
Q President Trump, is there any opportunity to have a meeting with the French President regarding Iran?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, Emmanuel is a friend of mine. And he can always have a meeting. And we’ve had to turn down many meetings, because for some reason, everybody wants to meet with us. And I consider it a great honor. But they want to meet.
The United States is doing really well. Everybody wants to meet with the United States. We can’t do everybody. So we’ve turned down, unfortunately, far more than we can do. We’ve had a lot of meetings today — the bilats.
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Q Mr. President, is it possible to ask a question of the Egyptian President of whether he has any comments, sir, on the demonstrations going on right now in your country?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Sure.
PRESIDENT EL-SISI: (As interpreted.) Let me say that you will always find something like this in our region, especially with political Islam. There have been efforts that have been put forth for many years to make sure that this political Islam is having a role on the political arena. And, consequently, this part of the world will remain in a state of instability as long as political Islam (inaudible).
Well, I want you to rest assured that, especially in Egypt, the public opinion and the people themselves are refusing this kind of political Islam to Egypt. They have demonstrated their refusal before, and they refuse those to have control on the country for only one year.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Okay. Steve?
Q The French President is trying to play this mediation role with Iran. Is that something you support or something that will work?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: We don’t need a mediator. Iran wants to do something, and I don’t think we need a mediator. He’s a friend of mine. But we’re not looking for any mediators. They know who to call.
Q Mr. President, is there a scenario where you could meet President Rouhani this week in New York?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, we have no meeting scheduled. Somebody said they’d like to meet. There was some talk about Yemen. All of the sudden, they want to get out of Yemen. That’s a good thing. I just heard that a little while ago, as you probably heard it.
We’ll see what happens. But we have nothing scheduled at this moment.
Q But you wouldn’t rule it out?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I never rule anything out. Why would I do that?
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Thank you very much. Thank you everybody.
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4:44 P.M. EDT
Pssssst, Morsi, lets talk a little about Benghazi. There are rumors that.....................
El Sisi is a good man.
Does he pretend that he’s muslim?
If he does, it’s for appearance’s sake, it would seem.
The media will never mention Egypt or Brazil or The Philippines or any country that has voted in a person that loves their country more than the one worlders.
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