Meeting With Chinese Prez, Trump Says ‘Bad Problems Will Be Going Away’

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have a bi-lateral meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have a bi-lateral meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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President Donald Trump said Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had developed an “outstanding” relationship during their summit at the President’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Speaking to reporters at the end of what the White House schedule said was an “expanded bilateral meeting” between both leaders and their staffs, Trump said that he believed “lots of very potentially bad problems will be going away.”

He did not respond to shouted questions from reporters about North Korea’s nuclear program, or about the military strikes he recently ordered against a Syrian airbase.

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  1. Avatar for drtv drtv says:

    “…Trump Says ‘Bad Problems Will Be Going Away.”

    Not so. You’re still here. Yet another lie.

  2. Called it!

    I said yesterday on twitter, that no matter the outcome or what happens, Trump would be proclaiming victory.

    Not that calling it was a big accomplishment. Literally the same day he proclaimed that his Presidency had had the best 13 weeks in the history of the Presidency. On week 11.

  3. A lot of bad problems for the Chinese will be going away.

    Yeah, they probably will.

  4. Lots of bad problems will be going away?

    Mr. Rogers had a target demographic that understood bigger words than that.

  5. “…bad problems will be going away.”

    Good boy. Now, get off the teeter-totter and let's clean that ice cream off your shirt.

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