US President's Apology

US President Trump's message via the White House website to the Jordanian people is a public apology to His Majesty the King, to the Jordanians, and to the Jordanian state, as a friendly country linked to the United States by agreements, interests, and understandings.

The US President apologized for what he did before the summit meeting and meeting with His Majesty the King on 2/11/2025, when he violated the prepared protocol and the agreed-upon program by forcing journalists to enter the presidential office at the White House headquarters without informing the Jordanian delegation and without coordinating with it.

President Trump knows in advance that his guest has declared positions on the issues related to the Palestinian issue, and the results of the crimes committed by the Israeli colony against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. He also knows in advance that Jordan disagreed with him in opinion and position regarding the Arab Palestinian city of Jerusalem, and that Amman refused during his first presidential term, between 2017 and 2020, to recognize on January 6, 2017, that Jerusalem is the unified capital of the Israeli colony, as well as Jordan’s rejection of his plan, which he called the “Deal of the Century,” which he announced on January 28, 2020. He knows these positions of Jordan in advance.

His Majesty the King also knows in advance the positions and statements of the American President, and the truth is that both parties to the summit and the meeting know each other’s positions.

But his press statement, which he delivered to journalists before the bilateral summit session, and announced his provocative, unacceptable positions, rejected by Jordan, regarding: 1- Displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, 2- Annexing the West Bank to the map of the Israeli colony, was an attempt at inappropriate embarrassment and blackmail.

His Majesty the King acted with prudence, broad-mindedness and courage, declaring his position that what was proposed must respond to all parties, especially the position of the Jordanian people and their national interests, and that what will be done to address the tragic conditions of the people, residents, institutions and facilities of the Gaza Strip will be done through an Arab plan being prepared by Egypt.

In negotiations, each party presents its positions to the other without any agreement on the offer, as each party knows the other party's positions in advance.

President Trump's statements were clear and announced before the summit, and Jordan's positions, supported by the people and officially expressed, were announced and consistent with the Palestinian national interests, and supportive of them, as well as consistent with the positions of the Arab countries whose foreign ministers met in Cairo on Saturday 1-2-2025, in the presence of the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, the Emirates, Jordan with Palestine, and the Secretary-General of the Arab League, as well as the European position announced by Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain, all of which reject the US President's proposals and his orientations against Palestine.

President Trump's apology was made under pressure from the deep state institutions that make the decisions, along with the congressional committees, reflecting Jordan's status and respect from various American institutions that imposed this public apology on the presidency from the American president.