PAS turns ‘Mrs Grundy’ over Anwar’s Trump welcome
By Terence Netto
PAS has criticised Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for what the party held was he going “overboard” in welcoming Donald Trump to the Asean Summit.
PAS must have been irked by the spontaneity of the US president’s reaction to the beat, rhythm and colours of the airport reception accorded Trump when he arrived in Kuala Lumpur.
Trump danced to the beat of the kompang and the rhythm of the dance troupe that was on hand to greet him.
Anwar, no prude when it comes to responding to musical receptions, reacted in like fashion.
Soon you had an unusual tableau on the tarmac.
A polarising world leader and a Hamas sympathiser were jiving to the ebullient beat of the reception.
When you learn that the diplomatic world is filled with martinets with handshakes cold as fish fins, you would find it difficult to envisage two leaders comporting like they were in a loosened-tie operation.
Trump and Anwar were in such a situation at Sunday’s reception at KLIA.
The two leaders…
