News of the preparations Egypt has made ahead of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s visit to New York to participate in the 71st United Nations General Assembly, along with his planned meetings with Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are the focus of the foreign media’s reporting on Egypt last night and going into this morning.

Leading the coverage is the Associated Press, which notes that aside from a delegation of “two dozen loyal lawmakers and media figures,” accompanying El Sisi with a mandate to seek to improve the country’s image, (we’re not sure if those are necessarily the right people to do that, but ok). “Coptic leaders in the United States have distributed leaflets urging their community to rally in support of el-Sissi. They are lining up buses to ferry people from churches in New Jersey to New York City.”

On El Sisi’s meetings with presidential hopefuls Clinton and Trump, Politico’s take by Nahal Toosi from last night is a bit dated at this point, as while Trump’s people didn’t get back to them to confirm their candidate’s meeting with El Sisi, the Reuters piece in the Speed Round had cited one of his campaign advisers. The piece also opens with the cryptic “Donald Trump has apparently taken Hillary Clinton’s bait,” an assertion Toosi never actually expands upon.

Toosi’s characterization as to why former Secretary of State Clinton is viewed unfavorably among many in Egypt is also wildly dated. Toosi blames Clinton’s “perceived closeness to Mubarak’s family and seeming slowness to embrace Egypt’s Arab Spring democratic movement” for making her an “unpopular figure among many Egyptians.” While that statement may have been true for a number of months in 2011, as nearly the entire country’s perception of the uprising soured, and as the Brotherhood rose to power, many in Egypt viewed Clinton as either sympathetic to the Islamists are even had a hand in their ascension — while Trump’s claim that US President Barack Obama and Sec. Clinton helped to create Daesh has gained currency with the Hezb El Tante crowd here at home. The Brotherhood, on the other hand, believe their ousting was part of an intricate plot backed by the Americans. It’s never a question of the glass being half empty or half full; the glass is just completely empty.