Donald and Melania Trump hosted China‘s Xi Jinping and his wife at the White House on Friday, capping off what the president called a ‘tremendous visit from two spectacular people.’
But before the quartet could sit down for tea, Trump was hammered by a brutal question as they posed for photos on the South Portico.
‘Mr President, did you call on President Xi to stop buying oil from Iran?’ the reporter asked.
Trump and Xi stared straight ahead as they stood abreast, neither betraying anything on their poker faces.
The question cut to the heart of the tension between the two leaders. Xi has
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