President Trump met his match in the Oval Office on Wednesday in the prime minister of the Czech Republic.
The nation's leader told Trump that he listened to his State of the Union address in January and supports his agenda.
'I perfectly understand your plan, how to make America great again. I have a similar plan to make the Czech Republic great again,' visiting leader Andrej Babiš said. 'So I look forward to our discussion about international trade, and safety and threats like cyber attacks and illegal immigration and of course the international terrorists.'
President Trump met his match in the Oval Office on Wednesday in the prime minister of the Czech Republic
Babiš, like Trump, is a wealthy businessman. He may, in fact, be richer than the U.S. president who has a Forbes-determined net worth of $3.1 billion. The foreign leader has also been implicated in his fair share of personal and financial scandals during his short tenure in office.
In the most unusual circumstance, the leader's son, Andrej Babis Jr., claimed his father had him abducted so that he couldn't provide damaging testimony to investigators.
The prime minister says his son is schizophrenia, a condition he says he was diagnosed with in 2015. He called reporters who approached his son in Switzerland 'hyenas' who took advantage of a mentally ill person.
A Slovakian by birth, Babiš is not only a political outsider, he is not native to his own country or its spoken tongue.
He based his campaign for office on a claim that as the second richest man in the nation - a he has a current net worth of $3.8 billion is U.S. dollars - he couldn't be tempted by the kind of corruption that lines other politicians' pockets.
Babiš made his billions off company Agrofer, which has come under scrutiny for creating a subsidiary that the businessman created with his family to develop a property, allegedly so hecould take advantage of European Union funding.
As he competed for the country's top job, the Czech police brought fraud charge against Babiš and two of his children. They also claimed he was holding his son against his will in Crimea.
Babiš said the son, who currently lives in
