Trump melts down in China after Xi Jinping insulted the United States — and Trump was too stupid to realize it in the moment.

 Norman Finkelstein

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BREAKING: Trump melts down in China after Xi Jinping insulted the United States — and Trump was too stupid to realize it in the moment.

It looks like he got back to his hotel, someone explained it to him, and he promptly threw his phone against the wall...

"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," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Our Country suffered immeasurably with open borders, high taxes, transgender for everybody, men in women’s sports, DEI, horrible trade deals, rampant crime, and so much more!"

According to all available evidence, Xi did not actually refer to the United States as a "declining nation" during his face-to-face meeting with Trump. Rather, Xi said that the United States and China should strive to avoid falling into the “Thucydides Trap."

The Thucydides Trap is a geopolitical concept coined by political scientist Graham Allison that refers to the historical truism that a declining hegemonic power often comes into violent conflict with a rising power. It takes its name from the Greek historian Thucydides, whose historical account of the Peloponnesian War recounts how Athens and Sparta came to military blows because the latter feared the former's ascendancy.

In this analysis, the United States represents Sparta and China represents Athens. So while Xi was perhaps not technically insulting America, he was implying that we are a waning empire. And looking at the demented sex offender leading us, who could argue otherwise?

"President Xi was not referring to the incredible rise that the United States has displayed to the world during the 16 spectacular months of the Trump Administration, which includes all-time high stock markets and 401K’s, military victory and thriving relationship in Venezuela, the military decimation of Iran (to be continued!) — Strongest military on earth by far, economic powerhouse again, with a record 18 trillion dollars being invested into the United States by others, best U.S. job market in history, with more people working in the United States right now than ever before, ending country destroying DEI, and so many other things that it would be impossible to readily list," Trump continued. "In fact, President Xi congratulated me on so many tremendous successes in such a short period of time."

"Two years ago, we were, in fact, a Nation in decline. On that, I fully agree with President Xi! But now, the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world, and hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before!" he concluded.

Obviously, Xi was not referring to the Biden administration. He wasn't referring to a specific administration at all. He was referring to a broader, century-defining trend but of course Trump is too petty, small-minded, and ignorant to contextualize events within a larger historical scope. He is an id-driven animal who is fixated on immediate gratification and ego.

The Chinese are strategizing the best ways to shape their relationship with the United States to benefit their people and position them as the world's dominant superpower. Trump is sitting cooped up in his hotel raging about a partisan political rival.

What's more, if Xi were to compare Trump and Biden, he would invariably have to conclude that the latter was a far stronger leader. Trump has devastated and hobbled America by slashing our scientific and medical research, crushing the work class, undermining our military alliances with Europe, and starting a war with Iran that — despite what he wants us to believe — he's losing. Above all else, Trump is a gift to America's adversaries.

To put this in even simpler terms, China is building high-speed rails and glittering cities of neon and glass. The United States is wasting $1 billion on a ballroom for pedophiles to gather inside.

We deserve better.