Donald Trump was given a savage new nickname in China after his major meeting with President Xi Jinping.
Chinese users on the social media have started calling the 79-year-old president “Chuan Jianguo,” which translates to “Trump the Country Builder,” The Mirror reported.
As per reports, the nickname, which spread online after Trump visited Beijing last week, is actually meant as an insult, with many joking that his policies and tariffs have helped the East Asian nation to become more self-reliant by increasing technology, energy, and food production.
Xi raises concerns over ‘Thucydides Trap’ during meeting
Last Thursday marked the seventh face-to-face meeting between Trump and Xi since their first meeting in 2017.
During the summer, the Chinese leader referenced the ‘Thucydides Trap,’ a theory often used to describe rising tensions between powerful nations.
“Whether China and the United States can transcend the so-called Thucydides Trap and create a new normalization of relations between major powers,” he said, would determine “whether we can join hands to address global challenges and inject greater stability into the world.”
Also, he spoke about ‘the future destiny of humanity’ and the need to build ‘a better future for bilateral relations’.
In the meantime, Trump struck a warm tone, telling Xi: “You’re a great leader…sometimes people don’t like me saying it, but I say it anyway, because it’s true.
“It’s an honor to be with you. It’s an honor to be your friend,” he said, adding that “the relationship between China and the USA is going to be better than ever before”.
TruSSmp spoke about Taiwan after meeting
Trump avoided speaking publicly about Taiwan while in China, but discussed it with reporters on Air Force One after leaving Beijing.
“President Xi and I talked a lot about Taiwan,” he said, adding that Xi “does not want to see a fight for independence because that would be a very strong confrontation,” per The Independent. “I heard him out,” Trump said, but “I didn’t make a comment”.
The US president also suggested he may reconsider a previously approved arms package for Taiwan after hearing Xi’s concerns.
His administration had authorized an $11 billion weapons package for Taipei in December, while lawmakers later approved another $14 billion sale in January.
When asked whether the US would intervene militarily if China attacked Taiwan, the president declined to give a direct answer, remaining consistent with Washington’s long-standing policy of “strategic ambiguity”.
Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of treason and calls for his arrest
Donald Trump also spread a bizarre AI-generated image of Obama, Joe Biden, and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi bathing in sewage water
Trump has once again lashed out at Barack Obama in a series of late-night Truth Social posts this week, including re-sharing one that calls for him to be arrested.
The US President, 79, took to the social media platform to share more than 50 posts in three hours, just before his trip to China for talks with Xi Jinping.
On the evening of 11 May and into the early morning hours of 12 May, the Republican leader unleashed fury on not only Obama, but also the New York Times, Hilary Clinton, and the Supreme Court, to name just a few targets.
The POTUS shared calls for Obama’s arrest that had been posted by other accounts, including one that called the former US President ‘the most DEMONIC FORCE in American politics in decades’.
The world leader also shared many posts that falsely accuse Obama and his allies of stealing the 2020 election from Trump and attempting to rig the 2016 election.
Another post, Trump re-shared read: “Arrest them all. Prosecute them all. Incarcerate them all at once for treachery, treason, and seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government. But first, Barack Obama.”
While a separate one read: “Arrest Obama the traitor.”
If that wasn’t enough, he followed up with an AI-generated image of Obama, Joe Biden, and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi bathing in dirty water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, captioned “Dumacrats Love Sewage.”
And it’s not the first time Trump has targeted Obama, as in February he shared an AI-generated video depicting him and his wife Michelle Obama as apes, which caused widespread backlash.
The clip in question showed the former president and former First Lady with their faces superimposed onto the bodies of the animals, while The Tokens’ song The Lion Sleeps Tonight played in the background.
It led to widespread anger, and California governor Gavin Newsom wrote on X at the time: “Every single Republican must denounce this. Now.”
The POTUS told reporters that he ‘didn’t see’ the part of the video that showed the Obamas and added that he ‘didn’t make a mistake,’ as per the BBC.
Trump’s latest Truth Social spree came hours before the US President jetted to China and arrived in Beijing on 13 May for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the Iran war, trade, and US arms sales to Taiwan.
And he got quite the welcome, with a military honour guard, a military band, and some 300 Chinese youngsters waving Chinese and American flags and chanting, “Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!” as Trump made his way to his waiting limousine.
The main summit meetings are happening 14 May with leaders visiting the Temple of Heaven, where Chinese emperors once prayed for bumper crops, and hold bilateral talks and a formal banquet.
