Trump embarrassed during Xi visit, LASHES OUT

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How did Donald Trump embarrass himself during Xi Jinping’s White House visit?

Pat Ford 0:07
Donald Trump embarrassed himself and embarrassed the United States with his handling of Xi Jinping's visit to the White House this week, bending over backwards to accommodate the Chinese leader, doing everything that he could to impress him and win him over, while at the same time our relationships with places like Canada and Europe have never been worse. Trump is meeting Xi Jinping over at the airbase when he arrives from China rather than waiting at the White House, which is the normal presidential protocol. But Trump wants to look subservient. He wants to impress Xi Jinping. And that was made very clear at the White House this week with the state dinner and the events leading up to it. Xi Jinping, of course, did not.
Pat Ford 0:47
display the exact same level of hospitality when Trump decided to visit Beijing back in May. Trump's gesture suggests that he is going to be very conciliatory when negotiating on things like the trade war and crypto regulation, which they were supposed to be discussing this week. It's unclear if they actually got to that stuff or it was all pomp and circumstance, but It seems like it was mostly just pomp and circumstance. So to start out, we have Donald Trump going out to greet Xi Jinping at the White House. And notice in the video that I'm going to play for you, Donald Trump is incapable of walking in a straight line. He just cannot do it. The red carpet is rolled out for him. So one would think it's pretty easy to walk in a straight line along the carpet.
Pat Ford 1:28
But Donald Trump veers off and he knocks Melania off course in so doing. How come he cannot walk in a straight line?
Pat Ford 1:55
And of course, Trump wasted no time bragging about the granite walkway that he decided to install outside of the White House. I think that the asphalt walkway and driveway was totally fine before, but Donald Trump decided to spend taxpayer dollars on this walkway as another one of his vanity project ideas. He brags about how the walkway can withstand 35,000 pounds of pressure. Yes, that's going to impress Xi Jinping so much. Here he is talking to reporters about how Xi Jinping loves the walkway. We
Donald J. Trump 2:28
had a great meeting, and he has great interest in granite. He likes granite.
Donald Trump 2:34
He's an expert on stone,
Donald J. Trump 2:36
aside from many
Donald Trump 2:37
other things, and he loves good granite. Thank you very
Donald J. Trump 2:40
much.
Pat Ford 2:42
Yes, of course, Xi Jinping, an expert on granite. You know, they really should have went to New Hampshire as part of this state visit, the granite state, because then Xi Jinping would feel right at home about it. He knows so much about granite. Then we have Trump showing off the presidential walk of fame that he decided to install last year. Outside of the Oval Office, he has this gallery of portraits that show all the former presidents. And instead of Joe Biden's photo, he has a black and white photo of an auto pen. The idea that, oh, Joe Biden wasn't actually president. He just governed by auto pen for four years. And Trump is there acting like this is so funny. Xi Jinping apparently feels like he has to go along and laugh along with it, too.
Pat Ford 3:24
So here is Trump and Xi Jinping laughing at the auto pen picture. And keep in mind, Joe Biden right now is dealing with stage four cancer. So this is as disrespectful as it
Donald J. Trump 3:35
gets.
Pat Ford 3:44
It's the same routine every time, right? This thing has been installed for like a year now. So whenever he does an interview on Fox news or whatever, he's showing off the auto pen picture and he thinks it's laugh out loud, funny every single time. I got to say it's an old joke at this point and obviously completely disrespectful given everything that Joe Biden is dealing with right now. It would be disrespectful regardless, but the fact that you're making fun of someone who has stage four cancer right now and by all accounts is not doing well. It just tells you what kind of person Donald Trump is. And then we have Donald Trump showing off the helipad because yes, this is another thing that Xi Jinping is going to be tremendously impressed by.
Pat Ford 4:20
Donald Trump's new helipad that he decided to install on the White House grounds for the new generation of Marine One helicopters.

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