What gifts does Trump give to leaders of other countries and what will Putin give
The American leader said that he was going to give a gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
US President Donald Trump admitted that he had prepared a small gift for him to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
“I do have a little gift for him, but you will only know what it is when I give it to him,” CNN quoted him as saying.
Putin is not the first leader to whom Trump will present a gift. Writes Air force Last Friday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in North Korea not empty-handed. He handed a gift from Donald Trump.
As The Chosun Ilbo learned, during the meeting, the leaders of the DPRK and the United States discussed that Trump called his colleague “rocket man,” referring both to the military ambitions of the North Korean leader and to Elton John’s song of the same name, “Rocket man.”
It turned out that Kim Jong-un had never heard this song. As a result, Trump decided to give him a disk to fill the gap.
The world community froze, waiting for a reaction. Vice published an article with the headline: “Trump sent Kim Jong-un a disc with the song “Rocket Man.” And we are all doomed." “Let’s hope he has a sense of humor,” the publication wrote.
For those who think that this is too unusual a gesture for diplomatic practice, the Air Force prepared a list of the most unexpected (and ridiculous) gifts to world leaders.
Disc is the best gift
Kim Jong-un is not the first head of state who received a disc as a gift. In 2009, Barack Obama, being the president of the United States, presented a collection of DVDs with his favorite American films to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
It seems that this gift was quite difficult for the British to appreciate. Not only was it a response to a much more valuable gift from the British side, but it also turned out to be completely useless - the United Kingdom has different regional DVD restrictions, and films from Obama's discs were simply not played there.
Carpet-portrait
In August, 1997, the former President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, presented Bill and Hillary Clinton with a carpet with their portraits. The faces of the President and the First Lady of the United States on the carpet were placed inside a large heart.
The gift was created by the famous Azerbaijani artist Kamil Aliyev. "I wanted to imagine their [the Clintons'] lives as part of a single beating heart," He explained your design master.
Overload, reboot - what's the difference?
Hillary Clinton also remembered the world with her gift, however, no matter how hard the American side tried, it did not turn out to be particularly emotional.
When Clinton visited Moscow in 2009, while serving as US Secretary of State, she presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a gift symbolizing a new—that is, friendly—round of relations between their countries.
The gift was a red button with the inscription reset on it - an invitation to forget the grievances of the Cold War and start with a clean slate. However, it turned out that the Americans made a mistake in translating the word reset, and as a result, the button read “overload” instead of reboot.
Queen's personal grasshopper
When, in 2002, the British Queen Elizabeth II for the first time showed gifts that she had been given during the reign, the public discovered something unexpected.
Among the jewels, traditional products of different nations and works of art in Buckingham Palace one could see a huge device for cooling wine, made of steel and Sevres porcelain in the form of a grasshopper.
The beneficial “insect” was given to the Queen in 1972 by former French President Georges Pompidou.
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