It took the Left couple of years to see how some of its most avowed representatives jumped on Trump’s ship for various reasons.

First, we had journalist Piers Morgan, who said he would not vote for Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. As a U.S. permanent resident from England, he could not have voted anyway. However, later, in 2017, he defended the president’s so-called “Muslim travel ban”).

Then actor Steve Harvey came. He was criticized by his black community for his decision to meet with then-President elect before his inauguration. …

Looking back, I can say that, over the years, I have had several important occasions to meet with a number of important leaders from the United States (presidents), Romania (monarchs, presidents and prime ministers) and the Republic of Moldova (prime ministers). For this reason, I find it useful to recall these meetings. In this article I will limit myself to my meetings with heads of state.

King Michael I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1921–2017), the last king of Romania (1927–1930, 1940–1947)

I met King Michael I of Romania once, on April 27, 1992, in the city of Curtea de Argeş, Argeş County, Romania. …

Aldous Mina was born in 1979 and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a graduate of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia (B.S., International Business) and American InterContinental University/AIU in Schaumburg/Chicago, Illinois (MBA, International Business). He received international business training in the United Kingdom (England/London, Scotland, Wales), Ireland (Dublin) and Israel (Jerusalem).

Mr. Mina worked for the U.S. Peace Corps in Romania (economic development specialist, 2008), World Bank (financial analyst, 2011). He has served in the federal government in both Republican and Democratic administrations in Washington, DC (financial analyst and auditor, White House’s initiative on the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) and private sector (contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, Northrop Gruman, Maersk and Maximus, Premier Global Council Group). …

James Carew Rosapepe was born on May 20, 1951, in Rome, Italy. He is the son of two freelance journalists. He grew up in New York before moving to the Washington area in the late 1960s. Rosapepe attended Yale University as an undergraduate student.

He was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1997). Then he was appointed as Ambassador to Romania during the Bill Clinton administration and ended his mandate during the George W. Bush administration (1998–2001). …

Aldous Mina was born in 1979 and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a graduate of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia (B.S., International Business) and American InterContinental University/AIU in Schaumburg/Chicago, Illinois (MBA, International Business). He received international business training in the United Kingdom (England/London, Scotland, Wales), Ireland (Dublin) and Israel (Jerusalem).

Mr. Mina worked for the U.S. Peace Corps in Romania (economic development specialist, 2008), World Bank (financial analyst, 2011). He has served in the federal government in both Republican and Democratic administrations in Washington, DC (financial analyst and auditor, White House’s initiative on the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) and private sector (contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, Northrop Gruman, Maersk and Maximus, Premier Global Council Group). …

John Maurice Florescu was born on April 14, 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Radu Florescu (1925–2014) was a Romanian academic who held the position of Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College, authored a series of bestselling books on Vlad “Dracula” Ţepeş, served as an adviser to former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Edward “Ted” Kennedy (D-MA, 1932–2009) on Balkan and Eastern European affairs, and also served as the press liaison for the White House during the state visit of President Richard Nixon in 1969 in Romania.

John Florescu is a graduate from Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts (B.A., magna cum laude, History, 1976). He also studied at a catholic school in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Oxford University in Oxford, United Kingdom (politics, philosophy and economics, matriculated in 1974). …

Răzvan Atim works for the UiPath company (Sales Director, March 2017 — to present; Business Development Manager, May 2007 — to present; Head of Sales for Eastern Europe, January 2018 — to present).

UiPath is a global software company that develops a platform for robotic process automation (RPA). It was founded in 2005 by the Romanian entrepreneurs Daniel Dines and Marius Târcă. The company started from Bucharest, Romania and later opened offices in New York, London, Bangalore, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC. In 2016, the company had 100 customers which rose to 700 customers in 2017. In 2017, the company reported about 600 employees and moved its headquarters to New York to be closer to its international customer base. On March 2018, UiPath received a US$ 153 million investment from Accel, CapitalG, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, valuing the company at US$ 1.1 billion and, as a result, making it the first Romanian “unicorn” (a privately held start-up company valued at over US$ 1 billion). In September 2019, UiPath was ranked #3 on the Forbes Cloud 100. …

George Roth was born in 1956, in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He graduated from the “Babeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca (M.Sc., Mathematics and Computer Science, 1975–1980).

He worked for the Cluj Territorial Center for Computation (1980–1991), after which he emigrated to the United States. In the United States, he worked as a Software Architect on numerous projects for large financial institutions in the U.S. and Europe (Recognos Inc., 1999 — to present; UiPath, 2018 — to present).

George Roth is one of the founding members of the Romanian American Business Network. He is also the Honorary Consul of Romania in San Francisco (2007 — to present) and the Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Chapter (2017 — to present). …