This was the greeting of Pedro Sánchez and Donald Trump in Egypt | Spain

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After months of tensions, absolute normality. Donald Trump greeted Pedro Sánchez this Monday in Egypt as if nothing had happened after threatening to remove Spain from NATO. The president of the United States has squeezed the hand of the Spanish prime minister, even showing some close gesture and with a smile, four days after the president said in the White House that perhaps he should not accept the 5% increase in defense spending.

The Government responded to Trump’s words to the Finnish president by assuring that Sources from La Moncloa indicate that the brief meeting has been “friendly, cordial, polite.”

Later, at the summit, Trump, with the leaders behind him, went one by one sending positive messages. Upon arriving in Spain, he looked for Sánchez. “Where is Spain?” he turned around, looking for Pedro Sánchez. “Are you trying to convince him [a Pedro Sánchez] about the GDP? We will get closer “We will get closer, we will get closer. What a fantastic job you are doing,” said the president in reference to the controversy over the Spanish economic contribution to NATO. Trump thus minimizes the controversy and seems to open a door to understanding with Spain after having threatened to throw it out of NATO or with very harsh tariffs that he later forgot.

The American leader, who arrived in Egypt from Israel very late, has received and greeted one by one the thirty leaders who attended the Sharm el Sheikh peace summit, convened under the motto Paz 2025, before the family photo and the signing of the plan, which includes 20 points for the end of the war in the Gaza Strip.

The one between Sánchez and Trump, barely 15 seconds long, is the first greeting that can be seen between the two in a video image since Trump returned to the White House. The American gave a slight tug on Sánchez’s arm, and the Spaniard briefly placed his hand on the American president’s back. This Monday, Sánchez also greeted the host and co-organizer of the summit, the Egyptian president Abdel Fattá al Sisi.

Trump and Sánchez also met in 2019 in Osaka (Japan), on the occasion of the G20 meeting. On that occasion, the American president dedicated an ambiguous gesture to Sánchez: La Moncloa assured that “the whole episode” had been “a joke” because Trump was not telling Sánchez to sit down, but simply told him that he had “a good seat.”

Both leaders also greeted each other in 2018 in New York, on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly, although only a photograph emerged from that meeting in which Trump and Sánchez appeared accompanied by their wives, Melania Trump and Begoña Gómez. Sources from the Spanish delegation reported that the contact between Trump and Sánchez, who have never held a bilateral meeting, was limited to a mere protocol greeting at a reception for international leaders attending the UN assembly.

Sánchez has arrived at the summit on Egyptian soil after having been one of the European presidents who has most clearly condemned Israel’s “genocide” as he calls it, but now that there has been a peace agreement the president has celebrated it – “Spain welcomes the peace proposal for Gaza promoted by the US. We must put an end to so much suffering,” he said – and has applauded the work of Trump, of whom he is very politically distanced, although Trump’s images and words at this summit show that the tension is much less intense than it might seem.

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