Former President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi “very smart people,” while ridiculing President Joe Biden for confusing China and Canada during his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas. .
On Friday, Biden addressed the Canadian parliament in Ottawa and said, “I applaud China,” before quickly correcting himself. ‘Excuse me, I applaud Canada. You can say what I think of China. I’m not going to dwell on it yet.
Biden was applauding the northern neighbor of the United States for agreeing to take in an additional 15,000 migrants a year from Latin American countries.
“But I saw Joe Biden say, ‘I want to thank China,’ and he’s in Canada,” Trump said at a Waco airport rally attended by thousands of his MAGA faithful. “The whole room starts laughing. “I would like to go to China”, but he is in the Canadian parliament. “I mean Canada.” The whole place, the whole place was laughing.
“They don’t care about our country. We don’t want anyone laughing – no one made fun of our country when I led it, I can tell you that,’ Trump added.
Former President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi “very smart people,” while ridiculing President Joe Biden for mixing China and Canada at his Saturday rally in Waco, Texas. .
Trump drew attention to the meeting earlier this week in Moscow between Xi (left) and Putin (right) during his rally in Waco, Texas on Saturday. He said Xi was “smart” and at the “top of his game”, while calling Putin “smart”.
Biden (left) addressed the Canadian parliament in Ottawa on Friday and said, “I applaud China,” before quickly correcting himself because he meant Canada. Biden is pictured in Ottawa on Friday alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right)
Later in his speech, Trump turned his attention to another meeting of world leaders that took place this week, Xi’s trip to Moscow to meet Putin.
“If you saw the other day with President Xi, smart, at the top of his game, President Putin, smart, very smart people, standing there talking about the world order for the next 100 years,” said Trump.
“It’s one of the saddest things you can imagine.”
Trump continued to brag that the war in Ukraine would not have happened had he been president, while claiming he could end the conflict in “24 hours”.
“I used to talk to Putin, I got on well with Putin, I used to talk to Putin about it. It’s something he certainly had in mind. I don’t I never even talked about it. For four years you didn’t even hear about it,’ Trump said. “As soon as I got out, or left, or however you want to describe this disaster, they started to send soldiers to the border.”
“But even then he didn’t want to do it, he wanted to get a piece — now it looks like he’ll probably get the whole thing eventually,” Trump said.
Trump addresses thousands Saturday in Waco, Texas – marking his first campaign visit to the Lone Star State in the 2024 cycle
Trump boasted he could end the war in Ukraine in ’24 hours’ if he becomes president again
The former president took ‘Trump Force One’ from Palm Beach to Waco, Texas on Saturday for a rally at the Waco airport
Trump spent the Friday before his big Waco rally at his West Palm Beach golf course
The former president was spotted golfing on Friday as he waits to hear whether he will be charged for his role in a silent money scheme that unfolded before the 2016 election.
As for the end of Ukraine, he said he would “get a settlement very quickly”.
“And I know both people and you can get it very, very quickly,” Trump said.
Trump launched a 2024 presidential bid in mid-November, but Saturday marked the first time he held a major rally at the airport.
It also marked his first appearance in Texas, a Trump-friendly state, this campaign cycle.
Trump has long admired strongmen, attaching positive adjectives to leaders like Putin, Xi and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
While he has used some of Biden’s 80-year-old gaffes politically against the Democrat, joking at Saturday’s rally that the president is “cognitively impaired,” while bragging that he passed a cognitive test that given to him by former White House physician and current Texas Representative Ronny Jackson.
