President Dunce
by digby
This is what happens when you have an imbecile who refuses to read a briefing book book because he's too busy watching Fox and Friends as president:
“I told him, I said, ‘You know we’re not going to let that [current trade deficit] go ahead,’ ” Mr. Trump said of his meeting last week with Mr. Xi. He added he told Mr. Xi: “ ‘But you want to make a great deal? Solve the problem in North Korea.’ That’s worth having deficits. And that’s worth having not as good a trade deal as I would normally be able to make.”
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He said they hit it off during their first discussion. Mr. Trump said he told his Chinese counterpart he believed Beijing could easily take care of the North Korea threat. Mr. Xi then explained the history of China and Korea, Mr. Trump said.
“After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it’s not so easy,” Mr. Trump recounted. “I felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power” over North Korea,” he said. “But it’s not what you would think.”
My God. He is seriously treating this like he's negotiating a cheap licensing deal for his ugly ties --- and he doesn't have a clue about who he's negotiating with. No wonder he went bankrupt four times.
This says it all:
He's just as dumb as his own marks. Only he's running the most powerful nation on earth. Don't think too much about that or you will never sleep again.
