this is an honor that the president appears to have made up
the ceremonial key to the city that's given out in New York is made to look like the one that used to unlock the back door of City Hall - not clear what this one is shaped like
Truman was given a ceremonial key to the White House after the gut renovations were completed during his presidency. But he was the president himself - and what he was given doesn't look like the gold item Trump just handed Netanyahu trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-rec…
of course, it does not seem irrelevant that both Trump and Netanyahu are facing their own domestic political problems at the moment, and both have eagerly used each other as important validators to show off to their voters
This seems to be a new idea to give a "key to the White House" to a foreign leader, but Obama gave keys to the Cabinet Room in the White House to some secretaries who left. There's also this:
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