During the White House breakfast on Nov. 5, Donald Trump almost sang a sermon admiring the posture parade of Chinese President Xi Jinping. But then, he accidentally exposed his dictator dreams. Trump demanded his own Cabinet act like frightened props.
While describing his recent meeting with Jinping in Busan, Trump called the Chinese President a “tough man.” The story started like harmless small talk, but soon veered straight into autocrat cosplay. “He’s got about six people on each side. And every one of those people was standing like this,” Trump said, imitating Xi’s officials standing at attention. But he sounded a little too excited to recount that.
