Not known for his linguistic talents, Trump was instead prone to call the leader of the world’s No 2 economy “Mr X-i”. To avoid such gaffes during Xi’s visit, “the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him ‘she’,” Wolff claims in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Trump, who had repeatedly assailed Beijing during his presidential campaign, hailed the start of “a very, very great relationship”. China makes several cameos in Wolff’s book. In one section, Trump is quoted as complaining: “If we have to be in Afghanistan … why can’t we make money off it?

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2018 04:52 UTC