White House Confuses Taiwan And China In Painful G20 Press Release Blunder

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Source: Talking Points Memo

By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published JULY 8, 2017 3:06 PM
Just before leaving the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday, President Donald Trump held a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Following that high-level talk, the White House blasted out a transcript of Trump’s public remarks preceding the meeting, a document that called Xi “President Xi of the Republic of China.”

One problem: the “Republic of China” refers to Taiwan. China is referred to as the “People’s Republic of China.”

This is not the first time that Trump has blundered into the extremely sensitive question of Taiwan’s sovereignty.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/xi-trump-taiwan-china-g20

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What a dangerous pin head operation, and I mean that literally

[ailsagirl]

1. Imbeciles

[jpak]

2. Mo-ran

yup

[Sancho]

3. Morans...

[xor]

4. Such incompetence.

You'd think with weird craziness that China has with this stuff that they'd try extra hard not to mess it up. Unless it was intentional. Then that's probably even more stupid considering we need China to help the world deal with North Korea.

[Achilleaze]

5. the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief has surrounded himself

with KGOP nincompoops. Disgraceful.

[Hekate]

6. He don't need no stinkin' experts in government. They're just elites lookin' down at real Murkins.

[gordianot]

7. You would expect China to play such slights for all their worth.

What worries me what this tells the world about the glaring incompetence of our non government.

[truthisfreedom]

8. Amateur hour has been extended to 24/7.

Fucking nincompoops.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Confused old man got lost on the way to his limo... Must have been 'thinking' again.

Confused old man got lost on the way to his limo... Must have been 'thinking' again.

'Gonna impress the world.'

[NastyRiffraff]

10. For decades, U.S. government has been VERY careful about this

No more. Dump and his circus of clowns just toss out any old statement. Double checking is obviously for sissies.

[AgadorSparticus]

11. Jesus. If you are going to be stupid, at least be smart enough to have smart people around you

What imbeciles.

[monmouth4]

12. The first clue to the incompetence would be no room reservations. A secretary's job..LOL..n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Hey now

They don't need none of that fancy pants lernin'.

[meadowlander]

14. That's what happens when you gut the State department.

[dalton99a]

15. Running like a fine-tuned machine

[Cal Carpenter]

17. More like a fine-tuned handbasket

heading straight to hell.

[dembotoz]

16. well hell they all look alike

[not fooled]

18. Au contraire

Oh, but this apparent gaffe is actually all part of the Master Plan to strengthen 'Murikkka by needling our adversaries...or something like that...it's Steve Bannon playing chess on the world stage, y'know, and WINNING bigly. Or something like that.

Or not, they're all just a bunch of morons. Remember Foreign Policy magazine's description of this administration:

Game of Thrones for Morons.

[Doug the Dem]

19. I can't wait till Colbert gets back!