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		</div><p>Foreign leaders showered US President Donald Trump and his family with more than 140,000 dollars (£106,000) worth of gifts during their first year in the White House.</p>
<p>China and Saudi Arabia were among the most lavish givers, according to the State Department’s annual accounting of such gifts.</p>
<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping gave Mr Trump and first lady Melania Trump the two most expensive presents in 2017: an ornate calligraphy display and presentation box worth 14,400 dollars (£10,931) and a porcelain dinnerware set that includes plates imprinted with the pink house at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort worth 16,250 dollars (£12,336).</p>
<p>Like all of the other gifts to Mr Trump, his wife, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, those were turned over to the National Archives.</p>
<p>The Saudis and Gulf Arab states gave at least 24,120 dollars (£18,310) in gifts to the Trumps.</p>
<figure id="attachment_127381" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-127381" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/4BEB150E-010E-49B5-ACF5-9DCADD6C550D.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-127381" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/4BEB150E-010E-49B5-ACF5-9DCADD6C550D.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-127381" class="wp-caption-text">Melania Trump</figcaption></figure>
<p>Those included a 6,400 dollar (£4,858) ruby and emerald pendant necklace from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, a gold-plated fighter jet model worth 4,850 dollars (£3,681) from Bahrain’s crown prince, a 3,700 dollar (£2,808) bronze statue of three oryx from the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, a set of gold-plated Kuwaiti coins worth 1,610 dollars (£1,222) from Kuwait’s emir and “royal” perfume in a reptile skin carrying case worth 1,260 dollars (£956) from the deputy prime minister of Oman.</p>
<p>Others in the Middle East did not stint when it came to presents for the first family, according to the 64-page list compiled by the State Department’s Office of Protocol, which is to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday.</p>
<p>The Trumps received a personalised hardcover book of Psalms worth 4,500 dollars (£3,415) 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 dollars (£4,402) and a mother-of-pearl Nativity scene worth 4,200 dollars (£3,188) from the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Even Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, before the Trump administration started a series of moves to downgrade US relations with the Palestinians, was generous.</p>
<p>He gave Mr Trump and the first lady a copy of a neo-Byzantine Nativity scene, a half-length portrait of Mrs Trump and photograph with a total estimated value of 6,770 dollars (£5,139), according to the list.</p>
<p>Other world leaders who have fallen from Mr Trump’s favour were among the 2017 gift-givers, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Canada’s Justin Trudeau.</p>
<figure id="attachment_127383" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-127383" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/39CC2029-545D-4EC2-B752-470340EF4D04.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-127383" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/39CC2029-545D-4EC2-B752-470340EF4D04.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-127383" class="wp-caption-text">Donald Trump with Emmanuel Macron</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mrs Merkel gave the Trumps Mont Blanc pens and paper worth 5,264 dollars (£3,995); Mr Macron a map from 1783 of the United States worth 1,100 dollars (£835) and Mr Trudeau a sandstone statue of a male lion wearing a crown valued at 450 dollars (£341).</p>
<p>Some gifts seemed designed to appeal to the president’s ego.</p>
<p>Those included an 1,880 dollar (£1,427) gemstone portrait of Mr Trump in front of an American flag from Vietnam’s prime minister, and a photo album titled President Donald J Trump in New York from Poland’s president that contains black and white photographs of the president and polychrome photos of Trump Tower and was valued at 850 dollars (£645).</p>
<p>Clothing, art, jewellery and accessories were favourite gifts to the first lady from foreign leaders.</p>
<p>The wife of Japan’s prime minister gave her a 2,200 dollar (£1,670) pair of Mikimoto diamond and pearl earrings and a 3,000 dollar (£2,277) gold and acrylic painting, while Italy’s prime minister gave her a 3,400 dollar (£2,580) Ferragamo handbag.</p>
<p>Belgium’s prime minister and his partner gave Mrs Trump two handbags from the designer Delvaux worth 1,020 dollars (£774) and 2,273 dollars (£1,725).</p>
<figure id="attachment_127384" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-127384" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BD24F19B-E114-49A7-93C8-62CF127A3C08.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-127384" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BD24F19B-E114-49A7-93C8-62CF127A3C08.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-127384" class="wp-caption-text">Ivanka Trump</figcaption></figure>
<p>Ivanka Trump also got a Delvaux handbag from the Belgian leader that was worth 1,023 dollars (£776).</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Saudi government gave Melania and Ivanka Trump embroidered garments, including at least one abaya, worth 1,500 dollars (£1,138).</p>
<p>Mr Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband, reported receiving only six gifts from foreign officials in 2017, the most valuable of which was a 3,630 dollar (£2,755) fountain pen given to him by Jordan’s king.</p>
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