Donald Trump’s recent comments about Gavin Newsom during an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson have generated quite a bit of buzz, and understandably so.
TRUMP: "I used to get along great with" Gavin Newsom!"
TUCKER: "Wait, you got along with Gavin Newsom?!"
TRUMP: "He was always very nice to me. He said the greatest things."
TUCKER: "About you?!"
TRUMP: "About me." pic.twitter.com/qO6ebk307V
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 12, 2023
Of course, if you stop and think about it, it’s not really all that surprising that Trump would have nice things to say about Gavin Newsom. After all, Donald Trump spent most of his adult life being a Democrat and donating to Democratic politicians, including Gavin Newsom.
Anyone surprised that Gavin Newsom donor Donald Trump was praising Newsom tonight hasn’t been paying attention… https://t.co/01oOuA0cGd
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 12, 2023
DeSantis never donated to Harris and Newsom.
Now sit back while the simps attack me and make excuses for this. pic.twitter.com/ZNpeWtTVMz
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) April 12, 2023
Anyway, as terrible as Trump’s praise for Newsom looks, what viewers of the interview should be even more repulsed by is Trump’s effusive praise for Chinese President Xi Jinping:
Trump: President Xi is a brilliant man. If you went all over Hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of President Xi, you couldn’t find anybody like that. The look, the brain, the whole thing pic.twitter.com/SSBEMaguun
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 12, 2023
Now, it’s important to point out that this isn’t the first time that Donald Trump has expressed his admiration for Xi. As an aspiring authoritarian himself, he has a great deal to learn from Xi Jinping. And Kim Jong-un, for that matter, for whom he has also expressed his admiration.
But still, it never gets any easier to listen to Trump say nice things about communist tyrants.
Someone please tell me this is some sort of AI generated thing. Please.
Please.
— Sir biggybadblanket, PhD MD (@biggybadblanket) April 12, 2023
I’d like to tell you that. I’d love to tell you that. But I can’t tell you that, because I’d be lying to you. This is who Donald Trump is. It’s who Donald Trump has always been. And it’s who Donald Trump is always going to be.
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as Trump loves sucking President Xi's dick. https://t.co/S7lzgBcrCO
— A.J. Winkelspecht (@ajwink) April 12, 2023
It’s a gross thought, but also any appropriate one. And if it were Joe Biden talking about how brilliant and awesome Xi is, you can believe that anyone defending Donald Trump over this would be accusing Biden of spinelessness and being an apologist for homicidal dictators. And they’d be right.
Trump has a hard on for Xi. Why does he speak so very fondly of tyrants and Democrat wannabe tyrants then attack DeSantis? Because Trump is a Democrat wannabe tyrants! https://t.co/L1wrQCnRAo
— TheFloridaZia (@florida_zia) April 12, 2023
When you have a guy running for President admonishing Ron DeSantis but praising a Chinese dictator, well… I don’t know what to tell you. https://t.co/GDM1OUUnOw
— Carlos (@txiokatu) April 12, 2023
So weak. https://t.co/q94dJn8TZE
— NeverTweet (@LOLNeverTweet) April 12, 2023
Weak AF.
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