President Donald Trump used his historic trip to the Middle East for the first phase of the Gaza peace plan to lavish high praise on authoritarian regimes.

The president arrived in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt on Monday morning as part of his whirlwind trip to the region where he sat down with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and other top officials.

“This country is doing very well. It has good leadership. It’s about leadership,” Trump declared.

Sisi overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected government in a military coup in 2013 and installed a brutal dictatorship instead.

While Egypt remains a strategic ally to the U.S. in the region, Trump zeroed in not on their partnership but Sisi’s regime.

“When you say ‘How is your crime situation?’ And they like don’t even know what you

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