Donald Trump v. Xi Jinping...another failure...what's next after the mockery?

Donald Trump with Xi Jinping
looking confident but beaten

CNN's  Erin Burnett comes on strong with her "stunned" reaction due to uninhibited mockery China has been hurling at Trump during his visit. There is a report that Xi did not meet him at the airport, instead...

"Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to China David Perdue; Xi’s vice president, Han Zheng; China’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng; and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu.”

Xi did send a gang to welcome T-rump but did not do the honorable thing of appearing himself to greet Trump. This apparently really pissed off MAGA, resulting in a meltdown over the insult. What a way to start a summit with the second strongest country in the world, showing disrespect.' Erin Burnett said that even as Trump was scheduled to meet with Xi that evening, the meeting was being mocked across China, adding...

"Beijing's strict censors are letting the ridicule go viral, which is a statement in and of itself."

There's more,,,

"America has lost its swagger. They're nothing but a paper tiger," one of those viral posts read. "The U.S. economy is in bad shape. Trump has been blustering Iran for so long."

It is beyond me how the Republican Congress, dumb as they are, could allow Dufus Rump to try and negotiate with a country so important as China. With the way Chinese manufacturers are taking over the electric car business, they could literally demolish the EV trade in the United States. And, China has nearly erased the overall performance gap in artificial intelligence chips. Currently, Trump thinks the U.S. is substantially ahead in AI but has registered concern over the competition in electric cars.

Here's another take on Trump's China visit from his niece, Mary Trump...

“Xi couldn't be bothered to meet Donald at the airport because he understands as well as Donald does that humiliating your underlings is a great way to keep them in check.”

So, the Oval Office lunatic blundered through an orchestrated greeting designed to show that Xi was in complete control with Trump later adding his adoration for the Chinese leader while Xi maintained a firm response. Donald Trump loves dictators. Other than Xi Jinping, the is Kim in North Korea, Putin in Russia and Erdogan from Turkey. Trump obviously had a thing for Adolph Hitler, admitting he had a copy of Mein Kampf given to him by a friend that he read regularly. 

Donald Trump is being laughed at all over the world, as well as in his own country, the U.S. Republicans in Congress know this but justify what's happening by the power they hold and are afraid of losing this if they defy the White House maniac. Remember in 2007, when Mitch McConnell, then head of the Senate. exclaimed that "The Senate has no claim on greatness unless its power is put to great ends." The GOP has used this ideology since then to create a power base that has brough America to the point of disaster.

Chinese media mocks Donald Trumo

But more about the laughter and mockery by the Chinese media, both during and even before Trump's visit with Xi...

"Trump is about to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping tonight, a high-stakes meeting which is being mocked across China. Beijing's strict censors are letting the ridicule go viral, which is a statement in and of itself."

Here are some comments from the people of China...

"They will look up to us from now on," read a post that Burnett shared. "Trump came to China! We won the tariff war! 

"Trump, you're welcome to visit China and learn from us," the mockery continued.

"The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength," a Chinese social media user wrote."

Did you hear this kind of rhetoric when Joe Biden was President, Or Barack Obama, or even going back to Bill Clinton? First of all, neither of the three admired dictators, as does Donald Trump, and in each of those three Democratic administrations, they were strong against the Chinese government, yet, also open to working with the country. There's a big difference between this and fawning over adversaries like North Korea's Kim, Russia's Putin, and now China's Xi.

And, there are other negative ramifications to Trump's China trip than mockery and being ridiculed. Donald Trump, who is supposed to be the leader of the free world, presents the weakness of a poor slob coming to Xi Jinping with his hat in his hand. This, after military experts have just told Trump he "is leaving US dangerously vulnerable." Trump was

U.S. vulnerable after depleting arms
in Iran War

warned...

"Before U.S. President Donald Trump launched the war against Iran in late February, military experts were warning his administration that taking on the Iranian regime would be a very heavy lift — as Iran is a larger country than Iraq, where a war proved to be much more complicated than George W. Bush Administration officials said it would."

And then...

"The Iran war has depleted America's weapons stockpile, leaving Donald Trump vulnerable and constraining his ability to resume hostilities, military analysts say. The majority of Iran's missiles and launchers, meanwhile, are believed to remain intact."

Not only has Trump left us vulnerable against Iran, he has put us in the position of not being able to defend ourselves against China--should they decide our weakness prompts a move--and actually the entire world. Think of this when you vote in November. 

 

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Donald Trump-Xi Jinping-Who's winning?

The Oval Office lunatic didn't get his way with the China tariffs. Although the Asian nation seems to be hurting, its president, Xi, always calls Donald Trump's hand, and just raised him with $75 billion added to U.S. goods. It's hard to say whether T-rump is winning or losing this battle, but it is more about the way it is being played than anything else. The machinations of Trump so far would lead one to believe we have an ego maniac running this country. We do.

When US companies were ordered to stop doing business with China, well, you can probably imagine the flabbergasted looks on the faces of hundreds of CEOs. Here's the scenario...

"President Donald Trump claimed he has the 'absolute right' to 'order' US companies to stop doing business with China that would involve using his broad executive authority in a new and unprecedented way under a 1977 law."

Trump lies about Trade War with China...

On the way to the G7 summit in France, Trump told reporters, "I have the absolute right to do that," citing the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). He also threatened Mexico with the IEEPA but reneged in another of his buffoon bluffs. The law gives "broad authority to regulate a variety of economic transactions following a declaration of national emergency." But Trump must...

"consult with Congress before invoking his authority and, after declaring a national emergency, send a report to Congress explaining why."

Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas and a CNN legal analyst says, "The idea behind these authorities is that the President is better situated to make those kinds of determinations than Congress, especially when they're time-sensitive." He added, "I very much doubt this kind of exercise of the authority conferred by the statute is what Congress had in mind." What he didn't say was the fact that it is a moron making the decisions.

Has Donald Trump made a major diplomatic faux pas?

China Pres, Xi Jinping

Donald Trump exclaimed with glee that he was putting all his business interests aside because it was more important that he run the government. And then he "innocently" accepts a phone call from the President of Taiwan, breaking a protocol dating back to 1979 when mainland china was recognized as China's government. But hold on, what about that new hotel in Taiwan that had been in the works weeks before the mysterious phone call.

Lawrence O'Donnell, on MSNBC, in covering the Taiwan call, also mentioned the fact that Trump was in contact with Rodrigo Duterte, Pres. of the Philippines, noting that he had called Barack Obama a "Son of a whore" again. O'Donnell continued that Duterte was the "craziest and possibly most dangerous elected politician in the world...as of now." The emphasis is my own but put there to question whether it might be predicting a future Donald Trump.

In consideration of the breach of protocol alone, Trump or his incompetent minions may not think it is important that they have in effect held Beijing in disrespect, but you can bet China's President, Xi Jinping, is watching every move Donald Trump makes and will take appropriate steps. Jinping was educated in the U.S. and is well aware of our customs here but the President-elects Taiwan move caught the country off guard:

"Breaking decades of American diplomatic practice, he caught the Chinese government off guard by lunging into the most sensitive of its so-called core interests, the 'One China' policy agreed to by President Richard M. Nixon more than four decades ago."

So much for diplomacy with a nation that we need to keep on the good side of not only for trade, but in the interest of a more stable world. But the real story here is the fact that political pundits question whether a major reason he took that call from Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, was to firm up their relationship in order to obtain more favorable arrangements for building a hotel in the country. That would of course be a major conflict of interest which is my next post today.