Melania Trump’s bold green gown turns White House dinner into fashion diplomacy

It was perhaps the most considered ensemble she has donned this term, even more than the Burberry trench she wore at the beginning of the state visit to Britain. Photo: AFP

There were many ways in which president Donald Trump used the pageantry of office to demonstrate the new friendship between the US and Saudi Arabia during Tuesday’s (Nov 18)  visit by Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House.

Trump rolled out the red carpet.