To be fair, MOM, bowing down, even grovelling before Turkish Mohammedan leaders has been a hallmark of American presidents since at least Nixon.
Good to see you Kolo.
Actually, this grovelling extended back as far as Eisenhower.
However, there is a fundamental difference between Sultan Erdogan and earlier leaders. The earlier ones were merely third world despots who wanted to extort as much as they could from Uncle Sugar (while keeping their population in check). This one sees himself as the next Sultan of the Ottoman Empire...and seeks to re-establish that empire (as a first step in a plan to unite all of Islam under one banner and one caliph)