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.