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This study examines the semiology of the image in the readout of King Abdullah II of Jordan meeting with President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America. This mixed-method study included 3 speakers and 70 questions, 30 sentences, 10 entities, and 5 topics. The researcher used textual analysis as the study instrument of the study. The researcher adopted Halliday’s functional socio-semiotic theory of language (2004) and Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) semiotic approaches to image analysis. The findings of the study showed that an image has the power to reflect future happenings. It shows the story of actions and arouses the emotions of the audience, by which the feelings of the individual can be discussed either in terms of sadness or support for a particular political point or vice versa. This study recommends that further research studies be conducted in this context to examine the semiotics of ideas, information, and personality.