President Donald Trump’s family got more than $140,000 in gifts from foreign leaders during the first year of his term.
According to NBC News, the gifts included a $1,880 portrait of the President made out of gemstones from the prime minister of Vietnam, adding that the full annual report logging the gifts will be published by the Federal Register on Thursday.
It is normal for foreign leaders to give U.S. presidents lavish gifts during diplomatic meetings.
In 2014, former President Barack Obama was given over $1.5 million in presents from foreign dignitaries.
However, unlike previous presidents, some of the gifts to Trump were especially personalized.
For example, the Polish president gave Trump a photo album with pictures of Trump and Trump Tower titled “President Donald J. Trump in New York.”
The most expensive gift on the 64-page list, worth $16,250, was a porcelain dinnerware set imprinted with images of Trump’s private beach resort, Mar-a-Lago. The dinnerware set and a $14,400 calligraphy display, the second-most expensive item, were both gifts from Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Trumps also reportedly received thousands of dollars in gifts from leaders in the Middle East, including a $6,400 ruby and emerald pendant necklace from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and a $4,500 personalized hardcover book of Psalms from the rabbi who oversees the Western Wall in Jerusalem, where Trump moved the U.S. embassy in Israel.
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