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Trump criticized Obama’s state dinner for Xi before holding his own

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from The Hill · North America

President Trump criticized former President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese presidents for state dinners, including Xi Jinping, multiple times more than a decade before doing it himself. Trump personally greeted Xi at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday and hosted a state dinner for him Thursday. But in 2016, Trump criticized state dinners, saying, “We shouldn’t…

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