Trump el-Sisi G7 meeting chemistry

    by Silvestre: Donald Trump

    During a meeting at the G7 Summit in France, Donald Trump described his relationship with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in remarkably personal terms. Trump said, "He's a friend of mine..he was in a hotel and I met him and we fell in love, deeply in love..we had great chemistry." The comments were captured on C-SPAN and shared by Headquarters.

    Transcript (en)

    Will you support Egypt's rights, water security? Well, that's what we're going to be talking about. You know, listen. How are you going to? Yes, that's what we're talking about. Of course I support Egypt. He's a friend of mine. From day one, you know, I met him early in the campaign, when Crooked Hillary and I were running against each other, right? And I was told that the President of Egypt is here. It was a big deal. It's still a big deal for me to be with the great President of Egypt. meet him, but not as big as it used to be before I ran. So he was in a hotel and I met him and we fell in love, deeply in love. And he didn't even want to see Hillary. He said, you're going to win. I don't want to meet her. You're going to win. He didn't want to see her. Remember that? So we had a good relationship right from the beginning. No, we met. We didn't know each other before that. We had great chemistry and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to, took up her time.