Did Trump bow to Saudi king? Liberals say this video proves it – TheBlaze.com
On Saturday evening, the Washington Post, among other media outlets, reported liberal pundits across the country are crying foul after Donald Trump allegedly bowed to Saudi King Salman.
The bow occurred while Trump was being awarded the gold King Abdulaziz medal in a ceremony on Saturday. As Salman went to place the medal around Trumps neck, the 6-foot-2-inch Trump leaned over, and before standing upright again, Trump seemed to hesitate and drop his body a bit.
Some are claiming the brief movement by Trump amounts to a bow to Saudi royalty. One host for CNN reportedwhile a caption beneath the broadcast read, Trump slammed as hypocrite for bowing to Saudi kingthe whole movement, including the lean, amounts to a bow.
BuzzFeed posted a video of the bow on Twitter with a caption that read, Remember when conservatives slammed Obama for bowing in front of the Saudi king? Did Trump just bow too? BuzzFeeds Julia Reinstein wrote an entire article about the one-second moment.
Far-left director Michael Moore said it looked more like a curtsy.
You might be wondering what all the fuss is about. It all goes back to a 2009 visit President Barack Obama had with Saudi Arabias King Abdullah, during which Obama appeared to bow to the king while shaking his hand.
It wasnt a bow, said one Obama aide, according to a report by Politico. He grasped his hand with two hands, and hes taller than King Abdullah.
Conservatives and many Republicans werent buying it, and they took advantage of the perceived misstep, labeling it a sign of weakness. At the time, Obama was working hard to apologize to seemingly every foreign power in the world for every alleged mistake the United States had ever made.
By bending over to show greater respect to Islam, the U.S. president belittled the power and independence of the United States, the Washington Times wrote in an editorial.
Trump himself criticized Obama, writing on Twitter in July 2012, .@BarackObama bowed to the Saudi King in publicyet the Dems are questioning @MittRomneys diplomatic skills.
Liberalswho seem to be in a perpetual frothing-at-the-mouth state to find anything, no matter how irrelevant, to criticize about the presidentpounced on Trumps bow, but a comparison of the Trump video and the Obama video seems to show, quite clearly, there was a world of difference between the two moments.
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