Chickity China, the Chinese Chicken

Chickity China, the Chinese chicken

You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'

from "One Week" by the Bare Naked Ladies

In any given week, indeed on any given day... damn, at any given hour, there is so much fuckery to cover in this interminable hell we live in with Donald Trump and his minions.

I'm so sorry but you're getting two posts today about this motherfucker.

Let's start with the Chinese chicken.  

Li'l Donnie's trip to China was the embarrassment we've come to expect when der Führer deigns to expose himself to a world his handlers cannot completely control.

The fawning over the top festival of welcome that greeted Trump when he landed in Beijing bordered on parody and mockery but Li'l Donnie ate it all up.

The normally tightly censored internet in China allowed Chinese citizens to express themselves about their American visitor. And those views were NOT flattering or positive.  

Trump's thin lips were firmly attached to President Xi Jinping's backside while Xi presented himself has acting from a position of strength.  

Take a look at this photo of these two men.  One of them is a man who is confident and in control.

The other is Donald Trump.  

Xi was all "the United States best watch itself helping Taiwan or there's gonna be trouble." 

Trump could only reply "thank you, sir, may I have another?" 

Taiwan has always been a bone of contention between the U.S. and China. 

Taiwan thinks it's a free and independent sovereign nation, a bastion of democracy in Asia.

China thinks they own Taiwan and want it back.

President Xi Jinping thinks he has in Donald Trump a useful idiot to see things his way.

Until now, American Presidents have seen a free and democratic Taiwan as something worth standing up for.   Not necessarily fighting for.  Dude, China is BIG and makes all our stuff and they hold a shit ton of American debt.  

Every time Republicans cut taxes for the rich but increase the budget for the Pentagon, Congress has to go into debt. 

So balancing our relationship with China and Taiwan takes a great deal of intelligence, wisdom and even a little bit of compassion so....

We're stuck with Donald Trump so fuck all that.  

On the line is an arms deal wherein the United States has committed to providing munitions for Taiwan to defend itself if China get's agressive.

President Xi Jinping does not want us to do that.

This calls for some kind of clever, insightful response.

Or whatever the fuck Li'l Donnie says instead.  

Trump says he'll make a decision about the arms deal in a "very short period of time".  (What happened to the "Two week Trump Timeline"?  Things are usually put off for a couple of weeks.) 

While Li'l Donnie appeared to be bending towards Xi Jinping over what China wants, there was virtually no indication of any Chinese capitulation to what Trump wants.  

Like helping with the war der Führer started with Iran.  

Or buying more soybeans from America.  Soybeans is... or rather WAS a cash crop for American farmers with China as the biggest buyer. Then Li'l Donnie got snippy with China, slapped a bunch of tarriffs on Chinese goods and China was all "we can do snippy too, bitch" and stopped buying soybeans from America. 

Or getting China to buy American aircraft.  Allegedly Trump did report making a deal with der Xi Jinping to buy 200 airplanes from Boeing.  

1. Trump said Boeing was expecting to sell 150 planes but he got it up to 200.
2. Actually, Boeing was looking to sell 500 planes to China.
3. China has not confirmed anything Trump said. 
4. Donald Trump is a dumbass.

There was a long list of things important to American interests that Xi Jinping would not capitulate to or was not committal or didn't even make the agenda.  

Like all things involving Trump, the whole meeting with Xi Jinping was more for show than anything substantive.

Just as they did for his arrival,  China also pulled out the pomp and circumstance for Trump's farewell.

再見，你這傻逼！

Sorry my Chinese is a bit rusty but that translates to "Good bye you dumb motherfucker!"  

Once out of Chinese airspace, Li'l Donnie was back on Truth Social with various diatribes of self praise about what a great job he did in China and bitching and moaning about other people.

Like Joe Biden.  

Apparently Xi Jinping insulted Donald Trump to his face but Li'l Donnie was too dumb to realize it or maybe the translator softened the blow.  Xi Jinping referred to the United States as a nation in decline. 

A couple of days later, Mr. America First goes to bat for the good ol' U.S. of A. by.... agreeing with him? Trump said Xi Jinping was talking about America under "Sleepy Joe Biden" but not NOW because NOW America is the hottest country in the world blah blah blah.  Y'all know the drill by now.  

Trump was off Truth Social for the three days he was in Beijing. Because Truth Social is banned in China.   

Gee, how can America get in on that? 

Well. it's get back to the United States where Trump can get some home grown praise and adulation without the hidden passive agressive subtext.

Which brings us to today's 2nd post.  

So you can come back in a couple of hours for that.

Or wait until tomorrow for the Tuesday TV Touchbase about the series finale of Outlander. IF I can write it through all the tears.