Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping — again — during his town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday.
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Trump Praises ‘Smart, Brilliant, Everything Perfect’ Xi Jinping: ‘Runs 1.4 Billion People With an Iron Fist’
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Charlie NashJul 18th, 2023, 10:06 pm
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Former President
Donald Trump praised Chinese President
Xi Jinping — again — during his town hall with Fox News host
Sean Hannity on Tuesday, calling the Chinese leader a “brilliant guy” who “runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.”
“Think of President Xi. Central casting, brilliant guy. You know, when I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh that’s terrible,'” said Trump during the event. “Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy. I got them to pay us $28 billion because they screwed our farmers for years.”
Trump has frequently
praised President Xi, as well as other adversarial foreign leaders, including Russian President
Vladimir Putin and North Korean Supreme Leader
Kim Jong Un.
During a campaign rally in March, Trump
called President Xi “smart, top of his game.” The following month, during an
interview with
Tucker Carlson, Trump said, “President Xi is a brilliant man. If you went all over Hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of President Xi, you couldn’t find, there’s nobody like that. The look, the brain, the whole thing. We had a great relationship.”
In 2020, Trump
celebrated his administration’s relationship with China, declaring, “He’s for China, I’m for the U.S., but other than that, we love each other.”
Trump has also previously made
comments about President Xi ruling with “an iron fist,” and in 2018 he
praised the Chinese leader for becoming “president for life.”
“He’s now president for life,” Trump said. “President for life. And he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll give that a shot someday.”
Watch above via Fox News.