Israel's far right has greeted Trump's success with ecstasy, hailing his promises to recognise Jerusalem as the country's capital and move the US embassy to the city, as well as suggestions from his team he would not stand in the way of Israeli settlement construction.
Newfangled bottle closures like screw tops and synthetic corks make wine snobs recoil, but thus far no such opposition has greeted the new glass plug.
The feverish anticipation that has greeted Greenspan's previous appearances this year is now absent, because the Fed's six rate cuts since January thus far have failed to breathe life back into the stock market.
This year he has greeted customers from Algeria, China, India, Ireland and Mexico.
The outrage that has greeted these efforts is dismayingly reactionary.
Nonetheless, the business world has greeted the proposals with scepticism.
A similar reaction has greeted the film in the US.
The education sector has greeted the loans with enthusiasm.
The outcry that has greeted yesterday's decision is understandable.
And so far, investors in Indian stocks have greeted the passage of the bill with little enthusiasm.
It was a far cry from the uncomfortable silences that had greeted Colbert's vicious roasting of the President two years ago, which became an internet sensation and turned the comedian into the nation's foremost political satirist.
