President Donald Trump criticized his Democrat rivals as weak on Thursday after the latest round of presidential primary debates.
“China, Iran & other foreign countries are looking at the Democrat Candidates and ‘drooling’ over the small prospect that they could be dealing with them in the not too distant future,” he wrote on Twitter. “They would be able to rip off our beloved USA like never before. With President Trump, NO WAY!”
The president continues to talk about the Democrat field, estimating China is probably reluctant to make a deal in the hope that Trump will lose his re-election campaign.
“I don’t think personally China would sign a deal if I had a two percent chance of losing the election, I think China would probably say, ‘Let’s wait,’” Trump said, on Friday paraphrasing the mindset of leaders like Chinese President Xi Jinping.”‘Let’s wait, maybe Trump will lose and we can deal with another dope and another stiff like the people that allowed these deals to happen.”
Most candidates in the Democrat debate lacked specifics about the proper way to fight with China, criticizing the president’s use of tariffs to punish China economically to bring them to the negotiating table.
Trump warned China that they would face an even tougher deal if he won re-election.
“The problem with them waiting, however, is that if & when I win, the deal that they get will be much tougher than what we are negotiating now…or no deal at all,” he wrote on Twitter Tuesday.