Former President Donald Trump heaped praise on authoritarian Chinese President Xi Jinping during a lengthy interview Friday with the podcaster Joe Rogan.

“We’re dealing with the smartest people,” Trump said, referring to the leaders of U.S. adversaries, about an hour and a half into their conversation.

“They hate when I say, you know, when the press — when I called President Xi, [the press] said, ‘Well, he called President Xi brilliant.’ Well, he’s a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, he’s a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not. And they go crazy.”

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    26 days ago

    At this point, I’m just posting this graphic

    Anytime I run into the “Don’t Vote Harris, that will stop Genocide!” camp

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      26 days ago

      And the democrats are at least working towards a cease fire. Trump would let Bibi turn his enemies lands to glass because Trump only cares about Trump.

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        23 days ago

        Trump’s team has literally been caught sabotaging peace talks, while he runs on “The Democrats will not stop the genocide that my campaign wants to do more of!”

        Reminds me of Iran-Contra…