The president was gracious but tough, candid but thoughtful, and unlike his predecessor, did not sell out the country to a dictator.

Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been unchanged. It would have been: “He’s a dictator.”

The only difference is it would be Xi Jinping who was saying it to describe Trump.

Other than that, though, a Trump-hosted APEC meeting would likely have been unrecognizably different from the successful and productive forum hosted by President Joe Biden.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      He has the respect of roughly (or over) half of voters in this country. Don’t forget that.

      Whining about how he isn’t liked when he’s currently leading polls seems pretty hollow, don’t you think?

      I don’t like him, but it seems dangerous to make these characterizations when he clearly has a lot of support. Otherwise we will be in the situation again where no one can “believe” he won.

      He’s winning. That’s a problem. You may not like it, and I certainly don’t, but we need to recognize the problem to solve for it. Dismissing half the voters in the United States as “degenerates” isn’t the answer. They feed on that.