Dinner with Putin and a President’s stand in: How Melania and Ivanka Trump saved the day at the G20:
The President’s wife Melania has also been called upon by the US delegation, after it emerged she was sent in to Mr Trump’s lengthy one-on-one meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to try to wind up their conversation.
Mr Trump spent 2hrs 16mins with President Putin on Friday, and Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, disclosed that presidential aides became exasperated that the President was allowing it to overrun for so long. Slots of 30 minutes are usually allotted for each bilateral meeting.
Mr Tillerson said: “They even sent in the First Lady at one point to see if she could get us out of there, and that didn’t work either … We went another hour after.”
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