Eugene Daniels

Hello, Katie.

I'm so excited to be here.

I'm honored, actually.

Also, I want to be in a movie.

How do we get in this movie?

It feels like a million years ago, but it just happened.

That's the bad one.

All of these leaders understand Donald Trump.

Sometimes I think better than he understands himself.

They know that a long red carpet, maybe a flyover of some jets, you know, a lot of people walking around, all of that makes him move, act differently.

He wants to feel important.

It is the pomp and circumstance of the presidency that is kind of his favorite part, right?

When everyone stands in the House chamber, when the State of the Union happens and he gets announced, all of those kinds of things are the kinds of things

That if you are a leader of a different country, that ingratiates you with Donald Trump.

And so I'd assume it'd be something similar, but the relationship is different.

The timing is very different and kind of the temperament is going to be different.

What they're asking for, what we're asking for as the United States and what China is going to probably want in return are going to be completely different things than they would have been and that they were in that first term and that they would have been two months ago when this trip was originally supposed to happen.

he overestimates himself and underestimates everyone that sits across from him, right?

That is kind of how Donald Trump has always operated.

The Chinese are very skilled negotiators.