On the morning of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s meeting with US President Donald Trump, the foreign press has been preoccupied with the Court of Urgent Matter’s ruling in favor of the Tiran and Sanafir handover to Saudi Arabia, topping coverage from the likes of Bloomberg, the BBC, and of course, Al Jazeera. Look for that balance to flip by tomorrow morning.

The barrage of foreign press coverage of El Sisi’s trip to the US continues in preparation for his meeting with US President Donald Trump today. Setting the tone in the US press: The inimitable Hamza Hendawi’s piece for the Associated Press (“In DC visit, Egypt’s el-Sissi to test ‘chemistry’ with Trump”) and Tarek El-Tablawy’s filing for Bloomberg (“El-Sisi may find kindred spirit in Trump in anti-Islamist fight”). Cairo and Washington are “expected to reach accord on enhanced collaboration in the fight against radical Islamist terrorism,” Peter Heinlein writes in Voice of America. “Trump would rather stand with a strongman against terrorism and Islamism than concern himself with Egypt’s domestic challenges — or US values at stake,” Daniel Benaim, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, tells The Guardian’s Ruth Michaelson.

Military aid and the situation in Sinai will also be on the table, veteran military analyst Robert Springborg tells Michaelson: “The US military has long been pushing Egypt to ‘go light and mobile’ … The counter-terrorism campaign in the Sinai and in Egypt proper has not achieved its objectives, due largely to harsh methods, poor intelligence and the drivers of discontent intensifying. New military equipment will not impact these shortcomings.”

Less flattering coverage included a piece from Politico’s Michael Crowley’s, who says critics worry Trump “has a love for tyrants and little interest in promoting human rights and democracy.” Washington Post writers appear to be justifying their paychecks by running almost the exact same report on the unlikelihood of discussions revolving around US citizens jailed in Egypt, including Aya Hijazi. Amr Hamzawy writes that “Egypt’s new authoritarianism has exacerbated societal divisions by systematically propagating alternative facts” in a piece for Al Jazeera. The same unoriginal point is echoed in a statement from Human Rights Watch. We are duty-bound to note this tripe from Steven Cook in Salon, if you can stomach it.