‘Well there is all this protocol,’ she said. ‘This is like a state visit so they tell you they’re going to stand here, and never before do you get this gift so I’m kind of like, “OK...What am I supposed to do with this gift?”
Uhmmm, you could simply say “thank you”?
She invented a fake crisis. A normal person, if they needed to put down the gift for an outside photo op, would simply lean it against the wall or a pillar for a moment if there was no one there to take it. What an oaf.