U.S. President Donald Trump said his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was "100% correct" in his assessment that the U.S. was a nation in decline, but the remarks referred to the years of his predecessor Joe Biden.
“When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
He said the U.S. “suffered immeasurably with open borders, high taxes, transgender for everybody, men in women's sports, Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI), horrible trade deals, rampant crime, and so much more!”
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Mr. Trump asserted that the U.S. has seen “an incredible rise” during the first 16 months of his administration and pointed to record stock markets and 401(k)s, military victories, renewed economic strength and what he described as a booming job market.
