The president was gracious but tough, candid but thoughtful, and unlike his predecessor, did not sell out the country to a dictator.

Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been unchanged. It would have been: “He’s a dictator.”

The only difference is it would be Xi Jinping who was saying it to describe Trump.

Other than that, though, a Trump-hosted APEC meeting would likely have been unrecognizably different from the successful and productive forum hosted by President Joe Biden.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    3·
    7 months ago

    Thanks for the compilation. The analogy I’ve been using for years is that trying to keep up with Trump’s follies is like trying to read Lord of the Rings while listening to Game of Thrones on audio and watching Avengers Endgame while riding a rollercoaster in a hurricane.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 months ago

      There are attempts at making more complete lists of Trump being an absolute idiot.
      Such lists tend to outright exhausting, exactly because somewhat like you say, he creates scandals faster than it’s possible to digest.