24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping walk along the Colonnade of the White House, Thursday, Sept.
Another joked that Trump sounded like “a Long Island mom trying to set her adult daughter up on a date. A third transformed Trump’s airport welcome of Xi into an imaginary presidential ride-sharing service called “Uber Trump. The joke: Why summon an ordinary driver when the president himself can pick you up? The humor treated the summit less as high diplomacy and more as a high-production personal friendship performance, with Trump’s fawning providing the punchlines, including an observation from Seth Meyers that “not even Chinese citizens gush this much about Xi. The short trade-truce extension and absence of any major breakthroughs only sharpened the focus on the optics, offering plenty of fire for satire.
A gobsmacked America is cracking up at US President Donald Trump’s over-the-top reception for Xi, with folks wondering “where Kung flu” — a reference to the MAGA supremo’s needling nickname for Covid, for which he has long blamed China. TOI correspondent from Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington DC to negotiate trade, technology, tariffs and the future of the global economy. Instead, he got the most elaborate housewarming party ever thrown by a man desperate to impress his guest. One commentator compared Trump’s welcome of Xi to a nine-year-old showing off his bedroom — with legos, video games and bunk beds — to a friend, before transferring the analogy to the White House, where the US President showed off his gilded Oval office, his presidential hall of fame, and a helipad — which one wag noted the Chinese would have built in two days, if not two hours.