Published 17:44 IST, September 23rd 2022

Trump avers US needs a 'tough' leader who can stand toe to toe with China's XI Jinping

Donald Trump asserted that US needs "sharpest people" like French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

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Taking a veiled dig at POTUS Joe Biden, former US President Donald Trump asserted that US needs a "great leer" who "can stand toe to toe" with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Speaking to Fox News, Trump asserted that US needs "sharpest people" like French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vlimir Putin and Xi Jinping. He went on to describe se leers as "smart, fierce, tough" and stressed that y "don't kw about losing." 

"Forget politics and Republican and Democrat stuff and rical lefts and everything else. I want somebody that’s a great leer. I want somebody that can stand toe to toe with President Xi of China," Donald Trump told Fox News.  

"We need are sharpest people, because people like President Xi, like Macron, I could name so many of m, like Putin but of course right w he’s having a different kind of a spell. But let me tell you, se are fierce people. y are smart, y are tough, y don’t kw about losing," he ded.

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Calling Xi Jinping a "fierce man",Trump said that y can go all over Hollywood to play role of Chinese President but ded, "re is actor like that, re’s body like that.

He furr said that US is "going to hell". "We are a nation in decline," he pointed out, ding that "This country is a mess. way it’s going right w it’s t going to survive."

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Donald Trump praises Putin & XI Jinping

Calling Xi Jinping a "good friend" until COVID-19 emerged in world, he spoke about tre deal which was signed between China and US during his tenure as POTUS. This is t first time Trump has praised Putin and Xi Jinping. Earlier in September, Donald Trump praised Vlimir Putin and Xi Jinping during a rally in Pennsylvania. He said that re are many leers in world who are "at top of ir game" and ded that Jinping rules China with a "iron fist," Business Insider reported. 

Expressing concern over situation in nation, Trump said that US is a "mess" and it will t be able to "survive way it’s going right w." Praising his foreign policy, Trump said that Russia, China, Iran and rth Korea were "in check" when he was US President. Furrmore, he said that ir nation was a country "like never in history" before COVID-19 emerged. 

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17:20 IST, September 23rd 2022