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Botany

(77,827 posts)
Fri May 15, 2026, 12:02 PM 5 hrs ago

An international embarrassment of a President said this crap in China:

Trump says Xi is ‘very tall’ and out of ‘central casting’ because people in China ‘tend to be a little bit shorter’

Trump-China visit latest: President admits US spies ‘like hell’ on Beijing after saying he discussed Chinese cyberattacks at Xi summit

Trump claimed he and Xi have agreed on how they want to end the Iran war (but he didn’t say how)

The man needs to be in a memory care ward of a nursing home.




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An international embarrassment of a President said this crap in China: (Original Post) Botany 5 hrs ago OP
Lol, so funny, gab13by13 4 hrs ago #1
Post removed Post removed 4 hrs ago #2
If Trump's (racist) belief that Chinese people are short were true, Xi can't be out of central casting Ocelot II 4 hrs ago #3
The man is a pig. 2MuchNoise 4 hrs ago #4
Don't forget that WWIII is going on this very minute, between the U.S. and China. usonian 2 hrs ago #5

gab13by13

(32,740 posts)
1. Lol, so funny,
Fri May 15, 2026, 12:13 PM
4 hrs ago

Xi is 5'11" and Krasnov standing next to him appears to be the same height.

Response to Botany (Original post)

Ocelot II

(131,190 posts)
3. If Trump's (racist) belief that Chinese people are short were true, Xi can't be out of central casting
Fri May 15, 2026, 12:50 PM
4 hrs ago

because "being out of central casting" implies the person embodies a certain stereotype - that Chinese people, according to Trump, are short. Therefore a tall Chinese man can't be out of central casting. What a diplomatic disaster he is, though; he might as well have walked up to Xi and said, "You sure are tall for a Chinese guy. And by the way, we spy on you all the time."

usonian

(26,551 posts)
5. Don't forget that WWIII is going on this very minute, between the U.S. and China.
Fri May 15, 2026, 02:59 PM
2 hrs ago

Trump fired all the cyber-security top experts in government, so the Chinese can take down the entire US infrastructure (less some hardened military stuff) any day of the week. They were inside U.S. Telco's for a year before anyone noticed.

Xi is a playing genius poker and Trump, well, he's the joker.



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