In English, if you are getting “the red carpet treatment,” it means you are being treated well. But Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took the red carpet treatment to the extreme last Saturday. And people are talking about it on social media. One writer for Buzzfeed says Sisi “does things high-end or not at all.” The Egyptian government “rolled out” a four-kilometer-long red carpet for the last leg of Sisi’s visit to a public housing project outside Cairo. One Egyptian made an estimate of how much the carpet might have cost. He thought it probably covered 32,000 square meters, which would have cost about $190,000. An Egyptian military general went on television to explain that the government was using existing carpets, and the government did not purchase the material. But even still, people enjoyed poking fun at the outlandish display. Most people made the point that Sisi was making a speech about the need for all Egyptians to cut costs while using a very high-priced-looking red carpet.
Title: Egypt Rolls Out Red Carpet
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/red_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Egypt Rolls Out Red Carpet' data-article-id='1233'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='6938'>In English, if you are getting “the red carpet treatment,” it means you are being treated well.</span> <span data-start-time='6938' data-end-time='16604'>But Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took the red carpet treatment to the extreme last Saturday. </span> <span data-start-time='16604' data-end-time='20146'>And people are talking about it on social media.</span> <span data-start-time='20146' data-end-time='26979'>One writer for Buzzfeed says Sisi “does things high-end or not at all.”</span> <span data-start-time='26979' data-end-time='39250'>The Egyptian government “rolled out” a four-kilometer-long red carpet for the last leg of Sisi’s visit to a public housing project outside Cairo.</span> <span data-start-time='39250' data-end-time='45000'>One Egyptian made an estimate of how much the carpet might have cost. </span> <span data-start-time='45000' data-end-time='55021'>He thought it probably covered 32,000 square meters, which would have cost about $190,000.</span> <span data-start-time='55021' data-end-time='66917'>An Egyptian military general went on television to explain that the government was using existing carpets, and the government did not purchase the material.</span> <span data-start-time='66917' data-end-time='72979'>But even still, people enjoyed poking fun at the outlandish display.</span> <span data-start-time='72979' data-end-time='84333'>Most people made the point that Sisi was making a speech about the need for all Egyptians to cut costs while using a very high-priced-looking red carpet.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/egypt_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=5275 data-hint-location='66917' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/what_does_outlandish_mean.m4a'>What does outlandish mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='very strange or unusual'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/a_heavy_fabric.m4a'><span>a heavy fabric</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/a_joke_about_something.m4a'><span>a joke about something</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/very_strange_or_unusual.m4a'><span>very strange or unusual</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/a_famous_person.m4a'><span>a famous person</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=5276 data-hint-location='6938' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/who_took_the_red_carpet_treatment_too_far.m4a'>Who took the red carpet treatment too far?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='Egyptian president'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/egyptian_citizens.m4a'><span>Egyptian citizens</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/american_president.m4a'><span>American president</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/queen_of_england.m4a'><span>Queen of England</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/egyptian_president.m4a'><span>Egyptian president</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=5277 data-hint-location='26979' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/the_egyptian_government_rolled_out_a_long_red__blank__for_a_visit_to_a_housing_project.m4a'>The Egyptian government rolled out a long red <span class='blank'>carpet</span> for a visit to a housing project.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='carpet'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/tape.m4a'><span>tape</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/robe.m4a'><span>robe</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/curtain.m4a'><span>curtain</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/820/carpet.m4a'><span>carpet</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button 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