Donald Trump blew it already

| 12:01 pm EST December 14, 2024
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He hasn’t even taken office yet, and yet Donald Trump is still managing to make a fool of himself on the world stage. This, of course, is no surprise to any of US. Donald Trump does excel in one area—embarrassing himself.

So the little orange dweeb invited the president of China to his inauguration! See me, hear me, say YES! Well — that’s not what happened . In fact, China’s president blew him off faster than a blink of an eye.

No thanks. XI Jinping declined the lovely invitation. CNN says he is “Not expected to travel to Washington next month as an inaugural guest.” An excitable little boy, hollering for the school football star to come to his party! There will be cake! There will be cookies! There will be an orange excitable boy.

No, thank you, the invitee says politely. Reportedly the invite took many by surprise, including Chinese officials who wondered rightly: what’s the little shit up to? No good, I’m sure. CNN says that Trump appeared anxious to turn his inauguration into a worldwide celebration. He’ll have to do it without China.

Did Donald Trump really expect Junping to say yes? He might have. Narcissists, after all, see themselves as the center of the universe. They see the sun shining down on them as their own personal playground, and always believe they’re going to get what they want.

Trump embodies the traits of the narcissist, perhaps more than anyone I’ve ever seen. But alas! The Chinese officials are a lot smarter than Donald Trump (not hard to be), and apparently, they’re not getting near Donald Trump’s inauguration with a ten-foot poll. Sorry Charlie.