--- title: Egypt President: 'No Doubt' Trump Would Be Strong Leader description: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he he has "no doubt" that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump would make a strong leader canonical: https://time.com/4502537/egypt-sisi-trump-strong-leader/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-21T12:44:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:35.579Z article:section: Politics og:title: Egyptian President: 'No Doubt' Donald Trump Would Be a Strong Leader og:description: He met with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in New York this week og:url: https://time.com/4502537/egypt-sisi-trump-strong-leader/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8fa06dcbf1013eb0/6988a6f1428a9efddbcd455a/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-trump-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3565 og:image:height: 2005 og:image:alt: World Leaders Gather In New York For Annual United Nations General Assembly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Egyptian President: 'No Doubt' Donald Trump Would Be a Strong Leader twitter:description: He met with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in New York this week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8fa06dcbf1013eb0/6988a6f1428a9efddbcd455a/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-trump-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Egypt's Sisi Says 'No Doubt' Donald Trump Would Make Strong Leader > Sponsored content. 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President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, Sept. 20, 2016 in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Sep 21, 2016 12:44 PM UTC Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he he has “no doubt” that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would make a strong leader. In an[ interview that will air on Wednesday night](http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/09/21/egypt-president-el-sisi-trump-eb-sot.cnn), CNN’s Erin Burnett asked the former military general for his thoughts on Trump, whom he met in New York this week, and the Republican’s [plan to ban Muslims](http://time.com/4366912/donald-trump-orlando-shooting-muslim-ban/) from certain countries from entering the U.S. if elected. “The United States in general conducts very strict security measures for everyone who wishes to visit it, which has been in place for quite a few years,” Sisi said. “It’s also important to know that during election campaigns many statements are made and many things are said, however afterwards governing the country would be something different. And will be subject to many factors.” Sisi [met with both Trump and Clinton](http://time.com/4499600/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-meeting-sisi-egypt/), separately, in New York this week. Clinton is not expected to change U.S. policy toward Egypt if she becomes president, but some human rights advocates worry that Trump would forge closer ties with Sisi, whose brutal clampdown on Islamists and political opponents in Egypt has been widely criticized. Asked if he thought Clinton would make a good president, Sisi voiced back-handed approval. “Political parties in the United States would not allow candidates to reach that level unless they are qualified to lead a country the size of the United States of America,” he said. \[[_CNN_](http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/09/21/egypt-president-el-sisi-trump-eb-sot.cnn)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4502537/egypt-sisi-trump-strong-leader/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4502537/egypt-sisi-trump-strong-leader/"},"headline":"Egypt's Sisi Says 'No Doubt' Donald Trump Would Make Strong Leader","datePublished":"2016-09-21T12:44:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:35.579Z","description":"He met with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in New York this week","url":"https://time.com/4502537/egypt-sisi-trump-strong-leader/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Egypt","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8fa06dcbf1013eb0/6988a6f1428a9efddbcd455a/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-trump-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8fa06dcbf1013eb0/6988a6f1428a9efddbcd455a/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-trump-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"World Leaders Gather In New York For Annual United Nations General Assembly","caption":"World Leaders Gather In New York For Annual United Nations General Assembly","creditText":"Drew Angerer/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4502537/egypt-sisi-trump-strong-leader/","name":"Egypt's Sisi Says 'No Doubt' Donald Trump Would Make Strong Leader"}}]}] ```