US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping look at an image of an autopen signing former US President Joe Biden’s signature at the “Presidential Walk of Fame” in the Colonnade of the White House in Washington. Reuters photo.
“And, this is the autopen,” Trump said, prompting Xi to laugh. “Let’s be very clear on this one point,” Delaney wrote on X. “An American President mocking another American President to the communist leader of China is … gross and unAmerican”, she wrote. “Nothing says ‘America First’ like mocking a former American president in front of a communist dictator,” she wrote. “Trump may think he’s humiliating Biden, but all he’s doing is humiliating the United States.”
US President Donald Trump took a swipe at former President Joe Biden during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House, joking about Biden’s use of an autopen while showing Xi a display of presidential portraits. Biden is the only former president whose portrait is not displayed alongside the other commanders-in-chief in the row. An autopen instead represents him, a reference to Trump’s repeated criticism of Biden’s use of the machine to sign official documents. “The President mocking a former President in front of the communist leader of China is the most un-American thing an American president has ever done.
Trump supporters praise exchange
“President Trump and Xi Jinping laughing together over the Biden autopen portrait has to be the HIGHLIGHT of the day so far,” he said.