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President Trump got the red carpet treatment on Monday at Japan’s Imperial Palace where he made history by becoming the first world leader to meet with the new emperor of Japan.

The president and first lady Melania Trump kicked off the formal visit with handshakes and greetings with Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako.

Trump, who is on a four-day state visit to Japan, was the center of attention under the blazing sun at an outdoor welcome ceremony full of pomp and pageantry.

Melania opted for a $4,290 white Carolina Herrera dress with floral detailing and red stiletto pumps for the welcome ceremony.

The couples stood on a raised platform as the national anthems of both countries were played.

Trump then walked by himself down a red carpet and stood at attention atop another platform, listening to a military band.

He then continued down the red carpet to review Japanese troops while Naruito and both men’s wives held back.

Trump showed little emotion, but waved near schoolchildren feverishly waving U.S. and Japanese flags. Some of the children suffered from the heat and were later seen siting with cups of water and cool compresses on their foreheads.

Both Trump and Naruhito greeted a long line of officials in each other’s delegations before everyone went back inside the palace.

No public words were spoken.

 

 

Trump’s next stop was Akasaka Palace, the Japanese state guest house, for meetings, a working lunch and joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who participated in the palace ceremony.

Trump also will be the guest of honor at an imperial banquet at the palace hosted by the emperor.

The palace visit in the morning was the main event in a feel-good trip that started Saturday and has seen Abe and Trump playing golf, eating out, watching sumo and generally enjoying an all-Japanese weekend.

Trump has also sounded bullish in his bid to negotiate a new trade deal with Japan that reduces a $68 billion trade deficit.

He’s ignored Abe’s pleas to remove tariffs on steel and aluminum, though he did delay new auto tariffs for six months while a deal is worked out.

He said this week that real work on a new trade agreement would not begin until after Japanese parliamentary elections in July.

Trump opened a four-day state visit to Japan on Saturday, and quickly tweeted an attack on one of his Democratic challengers Joe Biden.

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