Trump, Xi talked Syria over the ‘most beautiful’ cake
CNNStory highlights Trump informed Chinese President Xi Jinping about the Syria airstrikes over dinner Thursday night The President said the discussion occurred over the "most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen." President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox Business, said he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping about the air strikes he authorized in Syria over the “most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen” at his ocean-side club and that the communist leader was “enjoying it.” “I was sitting at the table. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen and President Xi was enjoying it,” Trump said, before telling interviewer Maria Bartiromo he was told the strike was ready to go. Xi, the President said, paused for 10 seconds before telling Trump – via a interpreter – that “anybody that was so brutal and uses gases to do that young children and babies, it’s OK” to respond with force.
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