“And look at these people, how nice they are. Look at them. They’re so easy to deal with. Look at them. Central casting. There’s no Hollywood set where you could produce people that look like them,” US President Donald Trump gushed over the members of the Turkish delegation to the G-20 summit in Osaka.
The words followed his introductory statement, watched by millions of Turks on television or social media: “It’s my honor to be with a friend of mine, somebody I’ve become very close to, in many respects, and he’s doing a very good job: the president of Turkey.”