Showing off his big hands over chocolate cake and patriot missiles
by digby
They told us last week was "leadership week" in which is was planned that they'd host the Chinese president and confirm a Supreme Court Justice. I wrote this last week:
Chinese President Xi Jinping is at Mar-a-Lago for a state visit as we speak and one can’t help but wonder if the “message” of the Syrian airstrikes (whatever it was) wasn’t meant for him as much as for Assad. After all, there was no reason the U.S. had to launch airstrikes during a Chinese state visit. It could have waited a couple of days. It’s certainly possible that Trump wanted to show off his vaunted toughness to the Chinese delegation, and thought this would be a dramatic way to demonstrate it.
Well, here he is talking about that glorious moment when he told Xi about his big, strong, ballistic missiles:
It's enough to make you sick.
Recounting details about his decision to launch missile strikes on a Syrian air base last week, President Donald Trump took several moments during a Fox Business interview that aired Wednesday morning to enthuse about the "most beautiful" chocolate cake he enjoyed at his Palm Beach resort with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump was entertaining the Chinese leader at Mar-a-Lago when he ordered the military strike.
"I was sitting at the table, we had finished dinner," Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. "We're now having dessert—and we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen—and President Xi was enjoying it."
Bartiromo then said it was "brilliant" that the missiles were "unmanned."
"It's so incredible. It's brilliant," Trump agreed.
Then Trump appeared to momentarily forget which country the United States had attacked last week, naming Iraq instead of Syria.
"So what happens is I said 'we've just launched 59 missiles heading to Iraq and I wanted you to know this,'" Trump said in the interview. "And he was eating his cake. And he was silent."
He was silent. Clearly cowed by America's hot, macho power and our rich, decadent chocolate cake.
Oh baby, gimme a cig and a diet coke.
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