Former President Donald Trump heaped praise on authoritarian Chinese President Xi Jinping during a lengthy interview Friday with the podcaster Joe Rogan.

“We’re dealing with the smartest people,” Trump said, referring to the leaders of U.S. adversaries, about an hour and a half into their conversation.

“They hate when I say, you know, when the press — when I called President Xi, [the press] said, ‘Well, he called President Xi brilliant.’ Well, he’s a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, he’s a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not. And they go crazy.”

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    9 days ago

    And the tankies will lie to your face and say they really truly just support Jill Stein for no other reason than her stellar campaigning skills. Lmao.

    What a fucking joke half this platform is 🤣

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      8 days ago

      To be fair the tankies agree with this opinion. There’s plenty of other stuff they should disagree with, but this is in total agreement with their beliefs.