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   President Trump upon arriving in Saudi Arabia on Saturday did   
   not bow to the Gulf leader as former President Barack Obama   
   appeared to do -- a move interpreted as American weakness.   
      
   In 2009, Obama appeared to bow to then-Saudi leader King   
   Abdullah at a G-20 summit in London.   
      
   Videos show Obama bending at the waist toward the king. The   
   White House at the time purportedly denied that the president   
   had bowed, with a source saying Obama was taller than the king,   
   so he had to lean.   
      
   Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia marks the start to his nine-day,   
   overseas tour that will also take him to Israel and Europe. The   
   international trip is Trump’s first since taking office in   
   January.   
      
   Trump was greeted at the Saudi airport with an elaborate   
   ceremony, punctuated by a military flyover and a handshake from   
   Saudi King Salman.   
      
   First lady Melania Trump wore a black pantsuit with a golden   
   belt and did not cover her head for the arrival, consistent with   
   custom for foreign dignitaries visiting Saudi Arabia.   
      
   The 81-year-old King Salman greeted Trump at the airport. The   
   two leaders exchanged pleasantries and Trump said it was "a   
   great honor" to be there.   
      
   “Two things need to happen,” Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the   
   American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told Fox News on Saturday   
   about Trump’s trip. “President Trump needs to shore up our   
   alliance with the Sunnis who feel abandon, and that starts with   
   Saudi Arabia. And in the short-term, he needs to create a   
   coalition that will decimate and defeat ISIS.”   
      
   Obama critics said the former president suggested several times   
   in 2009, just after getting elected, that the United States owed   
   the Arab world an apology.   
      
   “There have been times when America has shown arrogance … even   
   dismissiveness,” Obama said that year in France.   
      
   Saudi Arabia offered Trump the elaborate welcome ahead of his   
   two-day stay. Billboards featuring images of Trump and the king   
   dotted the highways of Riyadh, emblazoned with the motto   
   "Together we prevail."   
      
   Trump's luxury hotel was bathed in red, white and blue lights   
   and, at times, an image of the president's face.   
      
   Trump and the king met briefly in the airport terminal for a   
   coffee ceremony before the president headed to his hotel before   
   the day's other meetings.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/20/trump-shakes-hands-   
   with-saudi-leader-doesnt-bow-as-obama-appeared-to-do.html   
         
      
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