Xi state dinner is a family affair
By Carolyn Yeager
LOOK WHO'S SEATED NEXT TO THE CHINESE FIRST LADY at the Mar-a-Lago state dinner Thursday night. The Jewish son-in-law/advisor Jared Kushner, who never seems to be far from the President in any meeting or social gathering. Right next to him is wife Ivanka
I do not know what modern exceptions to traditional protocol might have been made, but I have always seen the First Lady next to the male guest/leader and the President next to the honored guest's wife. So you would have FLOTUS, President Xi, Mrs. Xi, POTUS. Instead, here we have the two leaders seated in the center next to one another so they can talk, while the two wives are on the outside next to their husbands, not as easily included in the conversation of the two men.













