Trump responds to Xi's 'Thucydides Trap' comment about America's decline

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump on Thursday responded to Chinese President Xi Jinping's comment about the "Thucydides Trap" during their state visit, in which Xi appeared to reference the political theory that a dominant power's fear of a rising power could lead to war.

Trump claimed his counterpart was not saying that the U.S. is currently a "declining nation," but that it was during former President Joe Biden's term.

Xi, during his opening remarks on Wednesday, according to a live translation, said, "The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the U.S. overcome the 'Thucydides Trap' and create a new paradigm of major country relations?"

In his post to Truth Social on Thursday, Trump said, "When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct."

There was no apparent indication that Xi was referring to Biden in his statement.

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He's an asshole that other assholes says "now that's an asshole."

[nwduke]

1. Talk about clueless

His stupidity continues to multiply!

[RussBLib]

6. I don't think that is stupidity

…it’s his ongoing effort to scapegoat Biden for anything and everything. And nothing can EVER be Trump’s fault. That’s not stupidity; that’s never taking responsibility for anything bad; deflecting blame onto others, and he has that down to an art.

Who will relieve us of this horribly damaged person? Is the grand American experiment finally running aground?

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[nwduke]

18. Well

If it’s not stupidity, then it’s gotta be dementia!

[Farmer-Rick]

2. Xi never mentioned Biden

During pedo Trump's visit, Xi never said his name as far as I can tell.

[dave99]

17. Xi said 'Can China and the U.S. overcome the 'Thucydides Trap' - pretty present reference

shitstain is and has been destroying the United States

[hoosierspud]

3. Trump can't even say "Thucydides" these days

Much less understand the concept.

[The Madcap]

5. He probably thinks Thucydides

is an MMA fighter or a rapper. Maybe even the name of some shell corporation.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. I'd pay money to see him try to spell it. nt

[Ocelot II]

4. "He's an asshole that other assholes says 'now that's an asshole.'"

The perfect example of this is what Jeffrey Epstein wrote about Trump: "I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

[live love laugh]

8. Repetition....

[louis-t]

9. He can't pronounce it and he

doesn't know what it means. He can only blame someone else for it. Whatever it is.

[cksmithy]

10. It almost seems to me, and I am not

a historical scholar at all, that Xi is alluding to a possible war in the future against the US. I do not believe tsf even knows fully what Xi was saying. If he understood, he would of needed a diaper change immediately.

[Martin68]

11. Weak.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. The Soviets and the Americans avoided this trap, although we did have regional spats via proxies across the globe,

and also, the US and China have long been partners of a sort, being that so many Chinese immigrants came to America to help build our railroads, and tons of immigrants have moved to the US, hence the establishment of many 'China Towns' across the US in many U.S. metro areas.

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. The Chinese were also the only people denied immigration rights under the 1871 Chinese Exclusion Act.

We can thank 1870s California and Grant for that.

It was expanded in 1924 under Coolidge to the Asia Act which barred ALL Asian immigration to the US until 1943.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. Nice to cite 80-year-old and older bills. Here are other denied entry besides just China...

Trump signed an executive order slashing a program created by the Biden administration to temporarily allow the entrance of 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The decision to end the program was later upheld by the Supreme Court — paving the way for individuals to be eligible for deportation.

Other countries...

Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, South Sudan

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. I'm not denying that and I am not denying the history of xenophobia in this country.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. Me either. It's a stain that we all unfortunately have to live with, try to make amends. Unfortunately, w/ the POS in

the WH, I feel like we going forward 1 step, and then back two steps. Our day in the Sun will come...hopefully sooner than later.