Jordan's King Abdullah II’s words during his meeting with President Trump were clear and straightforward, former US Ambassador to Jordan Thomas Pickering says.
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00:00I mean, do you think he managed to get across Jordan's point of view to President Trump?
00:09And do you think we're likely to get any indication that President Trump is going to have a rethink
00:13about this, this plan for Gaza?
00:16Yes, and no, are my answers to your questions, but it would be difficult for President Trump
00:25to ignore what he had to say.
00:27And I don't know what he said in the private meeting, but what he had to say in the public
00:33meeting was a gentle conveyance of a determination that I thought was real.
00:40And from my knowledge of Crown Prince Abdullah, now King Abdullah, I thought that was very
00:47straightforward.
00:48But in the long record of the kind of politeness and the kind of dignity and respect which
00:57the Hashemite rulers of Jordan have exhibited in their long periods of rule in the country's
01:05concern, they may be criticized on other grounds, but I find it hard to see that people can
01:12lay a hand on them, so to speak.