Foreign leaders showered President Trump and his family with more than $140,000 in gifts during their first year in the White House, with China and Saudi Arabia among the most lavish givers.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with they wives, first lady Melania Trump and Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan pose for photographers before dinner at Mar-a-Lago, on April 6, 2017, in Palm Beach, Florida.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
The Saudis and Gulf Arab states gave at least $24,120 in gifts to the Trumps.
The Trumps received a personalized hardcover book of Psalms worth $4,500 from the rabbi in charge of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a gold and diamond necklace and similar pendant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre valued at $5,800 and a mother-of-pearl Nativity scene worth $4,200 from the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem.
Other world leaders who have fallen from Trump's favor were among the 2017 gift-givers, including Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Justin Trudeau. Merkel gave the Trumps Mont Blanc pens and paper worth $5,264; Macron a map from 1783 of the United States worth $1,100 and Trudeau a sandstone statue of a male lion wearing a crown valued at $450.
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