US President Donald Trump has sent two bottles of his own line of branded perfume to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sara.
The Syrian post-Syrian president posted a photo late last night on social media with a caption thanking Trump for the “precious gift.”
The photo shows two bottles of Trump’s cologne, which he has named “Victory,” accompanied by a note addressed to al-Sara that reads: “Ahmed, Everyone is talking about the picture we took when I gave you this awesome cologne–just in case you ran out (of perfume)! “.
The two men met in November in Washington, D.C. Video footage of their meeting shows Trump spraying al-Sarah with perfume before giving him the bottle.
“Some meetings leave an impression, ours obviously left a fragrance,” al-Sara wrote on X thanking Trump for his “generosity and for this precious gift. May the spirit of this meeting continue to shape a stronger relationship between Syria and the US,” al-Sara wrote.
The talks in Washington came months after Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman brokered the first meeting between the US president and his Syrian counterpart when Trump visited Riyadh in May.
Al-Sara became Syria’s interim president after he used his rebel forces to remove longtime President Bashar al-Assad from power, forcing him to flee the country after nearly 14 years of civil war.
By then, al-Sarra, as a military commander, was on the list of wanted terrorists in the US and had a $10 million bounty on his head
The bounty came when al-Sarra’s rebels overthrew al-Assad.
The former jihadist and current Syrian president has attempted to distance himself from his armed past by cultivating a more cosmopolitan profile.
Trump hands Syria’s al-Sharaa a bottle of cologne
Bombs and diplomacy by fragrance – the empire is a joke pic.twitter.com/X9IStmy6J7
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