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AZLD4Candidate

(6,956 posts)
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:03 AM Friday

Trump responds to Xi's 'Thucydides Trap' comment about America's decline

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump on Thursday responded to Chinese President Xi Jinping's comment about the "Thucydides Trap" during their state visit, in which Xi appeared to reference the political theory that a dominant power's fear of a rising power could lead to war.

Trump claimed his counterpart was not saying that the U.S. is currently a "declining nation," but that it was during former President Joe Biden's term.

Xi, during his opening remarks on Wednesday, according to a live translation, said, "The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the U.S. overcome the 'Thucydides Trap' and create a new paradigm of major country relations?"

In his post to Truth Social on Thursday, Trump said, "When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, and on that score, he was 100% correct."

There was no apparent indication that Xi was referring to Biden in his statement.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-responds-xis-thucydides-trap-013841887.html



He's an asshole that other assholes says "now that's an asshole."
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Trump responds to Xi's 'Thucydides Trap' comment about America's decline (Original Post) AZLD4Candidate Friday OP
Talk about clueless nwduke Friday #1
I don't think that is stupidity RussBLib Friday #6
Well nwduke Friday #18
Xi never mentioned Biden Farmer-Rick Friday #2
Xi said 'Can China and the U.S. overcome the 'Thucydides Trap' - pretty present reference dave99 Friday #17
Trump can't even say "Thucydides" these days hoosierspud Friday #3
He probably thinks Thucydides The Madcap Friday #5
I'd pay money to see him try to spell it. nt eppur_se_muova Friday #7
"He's an asshole that other assholes says 'now that's an asshole.'" Ocelot II Friday #4
Repetition.... live love laugh Friday #8
He can't pronounce it and he louis-t Friday #9
It almost seems to me, and I am not cksmithy Friday #10
Weak. Martin68 Friday #11
The Soviets and the Americans avoided this trap, although we did have regional spats via proxies across the globe, SWBTATTReg Friday #12
The Chinese were also the only people denied immigration rights under the 1871 Chinese Exclusion Act. AZLD4Candidate Friday #13
Nice to cite 80-year-old and older bills. Here are other denied entry besides just China... SWBTATTReg Friday #14
I'm not denying that and I am not denying the history of xenophobia in this country. AZLD4Candidate Friday #15
Me either. It's a stain that we all unfortunately have to live with, try to make amends. Unfortunately, w/ the POS in SWBTATTReg Friday #16
The big difference is that Xi is a well educated ass hole fujiyamasan Yesterday #19

RussBLib

(10,749 posts)
6. I don't think that is stupidity
Fri May 15, 2026, 10:37 AM
Friday

…it’s his ongoing effort to scapegoat Biden for anything and everything. And nothing can EVER be Trump’s fault. That’s not stupidity; that’s never taking responsibility for anything bad; deflecting blame onto others, and he has that down to an art.

Who will relieve us of this horribly damaged person? Is the grand American experiment finally running aground?

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

dave99

(257 posts)
17. Xi said 'Can China and the U.S. overcome the 'Thucydides Trap' - pretty present reference
Fri May 15, 2026, 02:43 PM
Friday

shitstain is and has been destroying the United States

The Madcap

(2,026 posts)
5. He probably thinks Thucydides
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:53 AM
Friday

is an MMA fighter or a rapper. Maybe even the name of some shell corporation.

Ocelot II

(131,199 posts)
4. "He's an asshole that other assholes says 'now that's an asshole.'"
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:46 AM
Friday

The perfect example of this is what Jeffrey Epstein wrote about Trump: "I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."

louis-t

(24,653 posts)
9. He can't pronounce it and he
Fri May 15, 2026, 11:49 AM
Friday

doesn't know what it means. He can only blame someone else for it. Whatever it is.

cksmithy

(519 posts)
10. It almost seems to me, and I am not
Fri May 15, 2026, 12:35 PM
Friday

a historical scholar at all, that Xi is alluding to a possible war in the future against the US. I do not believe tsf even knows fully what Xi was saying. If he understood, he would of needed a diaper change immediately.

SWBTATTReg

(26,395 posts)
12. The Soviets and the Americans avoided this trap, although we did have regional spats via proxies across the globe,
Fri May 15, 2026, 02:13 PM
Friday

and also, the US and China have long been partners of a sort, being that so many Chinese immigrants came to America to help build our railroads, and tons of immigrants have moved to the US, hence the establishment of many 'China Towns' across the US in many U.S. metro areas.

AZLD4Candidate

(6,956 posts)
13. The Chinese were also the only people denied immigration rights under the 1871 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Fri May 15, 2026, 02:21 PM
Friday

We can thank 1870s California and Grant for that.

It was expanded in 1924 under Coolidge to the Asia Act which barred ALL Asian immigration to the US until 1943.

SWBTATTReg

(26,395 posts)
14. Nice to cite 80-year-old and older bills. Here are other denied entry besides just China...
Fri May 15, 2026, 02:33 PM
Friday

Trump signed an executive order slashing a program created by the Biden administration to temporarily allow the entrance of 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The decision to end the program was later upheld by the Supreme Court — paving the way for individuals to be eligible for deportation.

Other countries...

Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, South Sudan

SWBTATTReg

(26,395 posts)
16. Me either. It's a stain that we all unfortunately have to live with, try to make amends. Unfortunately, w/ the POS in
Fri May 15, 2026, 02:40 PM
Friday

the WH, I feel like we going forward 1 step, and then back two steps. Our day in the Sun will come...hopefully sooner than later.

fujiyamasan

(2,015 posts)
19. The big difference is that Xi is a well educated ass hole
Sat May 16, 2026, 05:25 AM
Yesterday

Who has a long term vision for his country. I’m not saying I like his vision (he has firmly cemented his place as a dictator who has basically brushed all dissent). It also involves hegemony of all of east Asia.

But his vision, unlike Trump’s goes well beyond enriching just himself, his family, and cronies (those values are all embedded within the communist system anyways). But Xi is disciplined and single minded. His goal is to displace the US as the number one economic and military global power, and they’re well on their way of achieving it, because let me crudely put it, the US under Trump is getting very good at stepping on its own dick.

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