President Donald Trump on Saturday praised Chinese President Xi Jinping’s move to abolish term limits and suggested America might “give that a shot someday.”
CNN obtained a recording of Trump’s remarks and played a portion of the audio on air. The President was speaking at a lunch for Republican donors at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“China’s great, and Xi is a great gentleman,” Trump is heard saying on the recording.
“He’s now president for life,” the President added, to laughter and cheering.
“President for life,” Trump continued. “No, he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”
China’s parliament on Monday will approve the removal of presidential term limits from the country’s constitution. The White House did not respond Saturday to TPM’s request for comment on Trump’s remark.
Elsewhere in the speech, according to CNN, the President wondered aloud: “Is Hillary a happy person? Do you think she’s happy?”
“When she goes home at night, does she say, ‘What a great life?’” Trump asked his audience. “I don’t think so. You never know. I hope she’s happy.”
According to the report, the President also called former President George W. Bush “a real genius” for invading Iraq, which he said was the “the single worst decision ever made” and comparable to “throwing a big fat brick into a hornet’s nest.”
“That was Bush. Another real genius. That was Bush,” Trump said, according to CNN. “That turned out to be wonderful intelligence. You know? Great intelligence agency there.”
Maybe we’ll have to give trump a shot if he tries that
Ah, yes, our constitutional not scholar strikes again. Bobby Three Sticks will get 45 before he can think about changing the 22nd.
He’s going to get us into a war in the next 6 months in hopes of saving his presidency and republicun majorities in both houses come the midterms. Mark my words.
We had a president for life. His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and he took office 85 years ago. He was president for life, because the people wanted him to be their president, and kept on re-electing him.
Note: All 4 of FDR’s opponents put together did not get enough electoral votes to win the presidency.
Whenever that little voice in Donnie’s head tells him to think twice before blurting out another asinine remark, the demons in his head tell that little voice to “STFU!”
Donnie continues to express admiration for leaders of the least democratic nations, both past and present.
They don’t tolerate public protests, criticism by the mass media, investigations into scandalous behavior … and they declare themselves rulers for life.
How can he even joke about it? How can anyone give him a pass on a comment like that? Remember that day he swore to uphold the US constitution?