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Sun May 17, 2026, 03:01 PM 3 hrs ago

This Proves Trump Is Shrinking in Every Way: Political Guru

Donald Trump appeared both physically and metaphorically diminished beside Chinese President Xi Jinping as America’s stature seemed to shrink alongside him, one foreign policy analyst says.

David Rothkopf, appearing on The Daily Beast Podcast, said the 79-year-old president came away from his visit to China “deeply frustrated.”



“Everywhere he goes, he’s getting twisted around his own axle,” Rothkopf, the Daily Beast’s Chief Global Affairs Columnist, told co-host Hugh Dougherty. Trump, for instance, made a sudden reversal on his pledge to prevent Chinese nationals from buying American farmland.

“I think he’s a deeply frustrated man right now, because for most of his life, he’s been able to talk his way out of his problems, and right now… they’re piling up and piling up, and he’s just lost that old magic.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/proves-trump-shrinking-every-way-011919383.html

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