Former President Donald Trump marveled at how Chinese President Xi Jinping rules his country during a Fox News town hall Tuesday, calling the ruthless despot the “perfect” man to run the world’s biggest communist dictatorship.
Trump made the remarks Tuesday night in Iowa with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“Think of President Xi. Central casting, brilliant guy. You know, when I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh that’s terrible,’” Trump said. “Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy. I got them to pay us $28 billion because they screwed our farmers for years.”