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.

  • Neato
    21•2 years ago

    If Republicans were working for Putin would they fly to Moscow on the 4th of July?

    • @goldenlocks@lemmy.world
      -23•2 years ago

      What’s hilarious is that all that nonsense caused Trump’s policy to be far tougher on Russia in terms of economic sanctions as well as escalation over Ukraine.