Discussion: Trump, Xi Showdown Fails To Materialize At Mar-A-Lago

I seriously doubt if TRUMPfs little escapde in LBYIA scared the CHINESE…

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Where is our ā€œbetter dealā€ that all the other stupid Presidents failed to get but Donnie the Genius was going to negotiate on day 1?

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Oh, the hard bigotry of low expectations. The meeting is a success because trump doesn’t start a war.

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Trump condemned President Obama for taking a vacation. Trump vacates the White House every weekend to play golf in Florida- at OUR expense.

Trump treating the White House like a ā€˜batch pad’ tells people the White House is not the seat of power in America- Donald Trump and his golf resorts are the seat of power- pay to play.

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Trump talks tough on the stump and on Twitter, but wilts like seaweed when in direct confrontation. So much for his so-called negotiating skills. Without any depth of knowledge of issues, it is all optics and faux optimism about what will be accomplished in the future. Promises, promises.

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This is proof that ā€œMoney Can’t Buy You Loveā€, echos The ā€œClassicā€ Beatles.

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I never learn anything by listening to Trump.

As the Chinese already know, if we want to learn what’s really going on, we’ll have to ask President Kushner…soon as he finishes icing Bannon.

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We saw that with President PeƱa Nieto in Mexico City back when Trump was just a candidate. He didn’t recover from being face to face with PeƱa Nieto until he got back on US soil when he once again became a mass of snarling, raging canine terror.

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Who the hell was expecting a showdown? I expect the Chinese to simply buy this unfit, unqualified scumbag off. Even more so than name-branded toilets.

Xi was worried during the last administration because he (and the Eastern branch of the GOP Communist Party) though that America’s signals of morality through diversity, along with people’s willingness to challenge the government would be very detrimental to the regime’s power.

Not any more.

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Anyone who still takes Trump’s childish playacting seriously, I suppose, which means a few people among our own governing and chattering classes. Chinese officialdom seems to have realized at some point that there’s simply no need to take Trump seriously ever. He was right about how smart they are, just wrong about who they were smarter than.

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Well said.

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True that. But I think that everybody is entitled to a big sigh of relieve, that the Donald turned out better at this than expected.

I think it actually helps that he is in the hospitality business and puts up his dog and pony show at the Mara Lago club. It puts him into more of a win-win frame of mind, and he is at ease being able to do what he clearly derives most pleasure from: Showing off his wealth.

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Classic passive-aggressive behavior. Add that to the list of his personality disorders.

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As a candidate and president, Trump has taken an aggressive posture toward China, labeling Beijing a ā€œtremendous problemā€

Trump said in a brief appearance before reporters Friday that he and Xi made ā€œtremendous progressā€

A Brobdingnagian buffoon!

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I’d like to think Xi left thinking, ā€œBetter not screw with this guy’s jetway staircase like we did with Obama at the G20.ā€ I’d like to think…

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Trump treating the White House like a ā€˜batch pad’ tells people the White House is not the seat of power in America- Donald Trump and his golf resorts are the seat of power- pay to play.

I don’t think Trump is the seat of power. The thing that concerns me is I’m not sure who is. The generals? The ā€œNew York Democratsā€?

Fixed it

Welp Jared is the Secretary of everything at this point and he’s ā€œfamilyā€ and so not likely to be axed from this administration any time soon since that would upset Ivanka. More and more this is being run much like the Corleones.

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