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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,199 posts) Thu Oct 26, 2017, 12:40 PM Oct 2017

I did see a clip of the Lou Dobbs/Donald Trump circle jerk and/or interview and one thing stood out

It was the "King of China" moment.

But not just because he sounded like an eight year old who's trying to bullshit you into thinking the moon's made out of PopTarts.

It was the almost palpable sense of jealousy and excitement that you can hear from him when he heard President Xi was given additional powers.

DOBBS: Relationships -- you were criticized for even trying to court, if you will, President Xi of China. Everyone, the so-called intelligentsia of this country’s foreign policy establishment, said you’re wasting your time, it just can’t be done. And obviously you’ve made significant progress with him and --

TRUMP: Just spoke to him a few minutes ago, just before I walked into the room. You know, something has been given to him that’s never been --

DOBBS: Right.

TRUMP: -- it’s really virtually never happened in China. He’s been given powers that nobody’s --

DOBBS: -- written into the constitution.

TRUMP: He’s a powerful man. I happen to think he’s a very good person. Now with that being said, he represents China, I represent the USA, so, you know, there’s going to always be conflict. But we have a very good relationship. People say we have the best relationship of any president-president, because he’s called president also.

Now some people might call him the king of China. But he’s called president. But we have a very good relationship and that’s a positive thing. And it would be good to have that relationship with Russia and other countries, too.

You could almost see him drooling about when he thinks he's going to be given those additional executive powers and people are calling him the "King of America."