A year in: White House visits from foreign leaderspublished at 00:30 GMT
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Bernd Debusmann Jr
White House reporter
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Zelensky and Trump during their infamous February Oval Office shouting match.
President Trump has had a busy year at the White House – including with visits from foreign leaders to the White House, and occasionally to his his property at Mar-a-Lago in Florida or other locations in the US.
Trump began his second term of office with a flurry of visits, including from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan’s King Abdullah, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine’s Volodomyr Zelensky coming to the White House in the first five weeks alone.
Other notable visits have included El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, Britain’s Keir Starmer, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, as well as Germany’s Friedrich Merz, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, Qatari Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame.
Some of these visits are reflective of Trump’s foreign policy objectives, particularly the repeated meetings with Zelensky and European leaders that have focused on Ukraine, or with Netanyahu and Arab leaders on Gaza.
Others are more reflective of domestic or economic concerns. The visit by Bukele, for example, focused in part on the role El Salvador plays in Trump’s deportation agenda.
These meetings have, for the most part, been cordial – even when clear disagreements exist between Trump and his foreign counterpart.
But as Zelensky and Ramaphosa both found, this White House is by no means shy about putting disagreements – which were once closed-door affairs – out in the open for the world to see.