>Suit-clad officials, lined up near a red carpet for customary handshakes, awaited most of the world leaders getting off their jets in Buenos Aires. Chinese President Xi Jinping even got a full-on military band!
>It was more for some, less for others: US President Donald Trump, for one, did get the dignitaries, but not the carpet.
>But the vista in front of Macron and his first lady, as they got off their plane, was even more desolate: the red carpet was there, but not a single high-ranking official in sight. Visibly confused, Macron looked around and deciding he had to shake hands with someone chose to honor the simple folk: members of the airport staff.
