A decade ago, Donald Trump criticized then-President Barack Obama for hosting a state dinner for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, promising to never throw a lavish banquet for the leader of the world’s second-largest economy if he ever made it to the White House.
Trump, then mounting his first campaign for the presidency, said they should’ve just gone to McDonald’s instead. “Just take them to McDonald’s and go back to the negotiating table,” he told supporters at a rally in South Carolina in 2015.
