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Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
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President Donald Trump contradicted a claim made by one of his ambassadors that he asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping if Beijing wanted to buy U.S. weapons during last week’s meeting between the two world leaders.
The alleged offer speaks to a remarkable combination of incoherence and incompetence.
Al Jazeera frames Trump’s remark as a mercenary policy deviation, while US outlets mainly treat it as denial and clarification.