Trump embarrassed during Xi visit, LASHES OUT

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 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. But Donald Trump veers off and he knocks Melania off course in so doing. How come he cannot walk in a straight line?

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.

Donald Trump (2:28)

We had a great meeting and he is a great person, Granite.

He likes, he likes Granite. He's an expert on stone, aside from many other things. And he loves good Granite. Thank you very 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, 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. 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 gets.

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 Donald Trump's new helipad that he decided to install on the White House grounds for the new generation of Marine One helicopters. This is supposed to really impress Xi Jinping.

Xi Jinping is the leader of a country of 1.5 billion people. It's one of the most advanced countries in the world, of course. Two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail. They have the best EV battery and 5G networks. They have some of the best technology and infrastructure in the world. And Donald Trump thinks that Xi Jinping is going to be oh-so impressed by his helipad and his granite walkway. Yeah, he doesn't care about this stuff. You know what this really reminds me of? When I was in high school, our high school had a sister school with a school in China, and every year they would alternate either sending the Chinese students to the US or the US students to China. And I know that when the US students went to China, they got to see the best sites and had this life-changing memorable experience. There was one year where the Chinese group came to the US, and it just so happened to occur during a government shutdown. So they weren't able to coordinate all the trips and visits they were supposed to do. So rather than doing this visit of the entire East Coast and going to Boston and New York and Washington DC, they basically just showed up, went to our school, went to the mall, and then had to go back home to China. And I feel like this is a very similar situation where China has so much to boast about and we have Donald Trump showing off his helipad and the granite walkway. And as if this wasn't enough, Donald Trump went on Truth Social to brag about the meeting even more and praise Xi Jinping after it was all said and done. He said, quote, I met President Xi at the plane airport yesterday and he looked strong, vibrant, and fit. Better than ever. Madam Xi, of course, beautiful President DJT.