U.S. politics is scripted theatre and those Americans who don't see that are yellow-bellied cowards who don't WANT to see it because their brain-case is filled with dogshit.

Terrifying thought

Imagine, you're elected, come into power in your little country, you're some important shit, foreign minister

And then you're like "well I guess I'm going to meet those people on tv, US politicians and shit", and the official trip is organized etc, you land in the US, you think you're about to meet familiar faces, and then you're told more or less subtlety that, no you aren't going to talk to that guy, and yes he's the "foreign minister" too and yes you should have a meeting with him, theoretically, but that's not how it works. Instead you're going to meet that guy you never heard about, same deal for secretary of defense, treasury secretary, etc, only the president is "real", eventually, but all the rest are fronts/actors busy learning their script and pretending they are in charge of something once in front of tv crews lol

And you're told it's normal it's just safer like that don't start asking stupid questions everybody agreed on that already long before you were even born so don't make an ass of yourself and get along with the program