, Columnist
Maybe Trump Shouldn’t Visit Xi After All
Beware the garden path.
Photographer: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
When Donald Trump visits his Chinese counterpart in Beijing next month, “President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug,” the American president predicted the other day. “Doesn’t that beat fighting??? BUT REMEMBER, we are very good at fighting, if we have to — far better than anyone else!!!”
Big fat hugs and military threats in the same post: That’s par for a POTUS who, for example, claims that America has already triumphed in its war against Iran while simultaneously fuming that the Iranians won’t submit and take his conditions. Or who promises to end the fighting while also threatening to erase an entire civilization.