Which authoritarian leaders visited the White House under Trump and on what dates?
Executive summary
You asked which authoritarian leaders visited the White House under Donald Trump and on what dates; available sources here do not provide a compiled list or specific visit dates of “authoritarian leaders” to the White House during Trump’s terms (2017–2021 or 2025– ). The Department of State visit logs are listed for 2017 but not shown in the provided snippets [1], while broader commentary and lists about Trump, authoritarianism, and foreign travel exist in the collection [2] [3] [4]. Because the search results lack a clear, sourced roster of which visitors qualify as “authoritarian leaders” and the exact dates of their White House visits, this response focuses on available records, definitions and limitations in the reporting you supplied [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. What the official visit records can — and can’t — tell us
The U.S. Office of the Historian maintains a page of “Visits by Foreign Leaders” for 2017 that would be the primary official source for dates and visitors to the White House that year, but the provided snippet only references that page and does not list the entries or dates in our search results [1]. The White House itself publishes summaries of presidential meetings during any administration (for example, a 2025 White House roundup lists meetings in President Trump’s early months), but the document supplied is a White House piece highlighting accomplishments rather than a comprehensive, neutral list of foreign leader visits and dates [5]. In short: an authoritative list of visits and dates is likely present in government logs [1], but those detailed entries are not included in the sources provided here.
2. Who counts as an “authoritarian leader”? — competing perspectives
Whether a visiting head of state or government should be labelled “authoritarian” is contested. Academic and journalistic sources in your set repeatedly discuss Trump and others in terms of authoritarianism or fascism, showing there is debate about labels [2] [6] [7]. Some outlets and scholars classify leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Viktor Orbán, and others as authoritarian; others distinguish authoritarian populists from historical fascists [2] [6]. Because your query hinges on that label, a rigorous answer requires first defining which visitors you mean — a step not settled in the supplied reporting [2] [6].
3. Known high-profile visitors during Trump’s first term (context, not a definitive “authoritarian” list)
Reporting from Reuters and public calendars document that Trump hosted many world leaders during his first term, often amid friction with allies and praise for strongmen — but the supplied Reuters piece is a broad profile of his foreign trips rather than a date-by-date visitor list [4]. Wikipedia’s compiled lists of presidential trips can identify which foreign leaders Trump met abroad, and the Office of the Historian holds White House visit logs; those are the two places to extract exact dates and locations, but the search results here do not include the specific entries [3] [1]. Therefore, from the material provided, I cannot enumerate specific visitors and dates.
4. Why exact dating matters — and why it’s tricky here
A visit “to the White House” may mean a state visit to Washington, a bilateral meeting at the White House complex, or encounters on the margins of summits abroad — and U.S. records separate formal state visits, official visits, and working visits. The Department of State historian page referenced for 2017 would ordinarily clarify those categories and dates; that page is the right source to consult for precise dating but the text of it is not present in our results [1]. Without that text, any date assignment from other secondary sources risks inaccuracy.
5. Recommended next steps to get a precise, sourced answer
If you want a verified list of which leaders widely characterized as “authoritarian” visited the White House under Trump and the exact dates, consult the Department of State’s “Visits by Foreign Leaders” pages for each year of Trump’s presidency (the 2017 page is named in the results) and cross‑check with contemporaneous White House press releases and neutral reporting [1] [5]. For classification of specific visitors as “authoritarian,” supplement those logs with reputable country assessments or widely cited analyses that classify particular leaders (the sources here illustrate the debate over labels but do not supply a definitive visitor-and-label matrix) [2] [6].
Limitations and transparency: the provided search results include references to the State Department visit pages and to analytical pieces about authoritarianism and Trump [1] [2] [3] [4], but they do not contain a ready-made, cited list of authoritarian leaders who visited the White House with their dates. I have not invented dates or assigned the “authoritarian” label to particular visitors because those specific claims are not found in the current reporting you provided [1] [3] [2].