Overview
- President Trump said he and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El‑Sisi "fell in love, deeply in love" after meeting in a hotel and made the remark during a bilateral meeting at the G7 summit on June 17, 2026.
- Those in the room laughed and the clip quickly went viral, prompting widespread social-media mockery and commentary about the tone of the exchange.
- Trump framed the encounter as the start of a longstanding personal rapport, recalled that El‑Sisi refused to meet Hillary Clinton in 2016, and said he "stayed twice as long" because of their "great chemistry."
- News coverage stressed that the comments were about optics rather than policy because no contemporaneous change to U.S. policy toward Egypt was announced after the meeting.
- Reporting noted that the warm language stands against long-running human-rights allegations against El‑Sisi and that the episode could increase scrutiny of U.S.-Egypt ties and how summit side meetings shape public perceptions.