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.
Should Biden kowtow to Xi? He is a dictator and speaking truth matters.
he chose his words well
Except he’s not a dictator any more than Roosevelt was.
He was elected in free and fair elections and had opposition each time. Unfortunately people remembered the Republicans from the decade prior that allowed the economy to be fleeced and caused tremendous hardship on everyone, so they had no chance. Then a war happened.
I guess you were determined to be a troll at birth. Too bad you won’t use that energy to do some good for someone besides yourself.
Can you explain for someone not from the US?
It’s very important to the US Right to demonize Franklin Roosevelt as much as possible. His policies included public works projects that employed millions, including artists and writers. He was an advocate of racial justice and general reformer. One of the really funny things is that the Right had to wait until most of the people who’d voted for FDR were dead before they could really unload on him. He was so popular in his lifetime that he won the Presidency four times.
Thanks for explaining.
He’s an amazing figure, no matter where you’re from. He was born rich and became a champion of the poor, overcame polio, and created policies that are still in place today.