Donald Trump reveals he called Xi Jinping ‘king’ – and says Xi liked it.
US President Donald Trump has said he called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “king” during a visit to China 18 months ago, and said his Chinese host “liked it”.
“President Xi, who is a strong man, I call him ‘king’,” Trump said in a wide-ranging speech at Tuesday’s dinner. “He said, ‘But I am not king, I am president.’ I said, ‘No, you are president for life, and therefore you are king.’ He said, ‘Huh … huh.’ He liked that. I call him ‘king’. I get along with him great.
In his meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Trump called Kim a “great leader” as the two sides positioned to make a historic nuclear deal for the Korean peninsula – although he had called Kim “rocket man” in 2017 when tensions were high, and a “maniac” on his campaign trail in 2015.
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