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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    21 days ago

    I suspect that most of them don’t really care about genocide or the welfare of others in general. It’s a self-righteous bandwagon for them to jump on.

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      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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        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.