Jimmy Kimmel on Monday torched President Donald Trump for talking tough on China, only to flip-flop once in office.
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Last week, Trump held an elaborate state dinner in honor of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, even though he has repeatedly, and for years, said he’d never do such a thing.
“I wouldn’t give him a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people that rip us off where we give them these big state dinners,” Trump said when he was a candidate in 2016 in a clip that Kimmel aired on Monday night. “We give them state dinners like you’ve never seen. We shouldn’t have dinners at all.”
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Trump also claimed that such dinners cost a fortune, and he wouldn’t host them.
Trump in 2016: We shouldn’t have state dinners at all. We should be eating a hamburger on a conference table, and we should make better deals with China and forget the state dinners. The state dinners cost a fortune. pic.twitter.com/fEjXUwC8LN
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“See if you can guess what the orange chicken did over the weekend,” Kimmel said. “Well, that’s right. He hosted a lavish state dinner for the president of China.”
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