🚨 BREAKING: Trump has arrived in China to find that President XI did NOT greet him at the airport.

[riversedge]

This loss is that the U.S. is no longer respected--


🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has arrived in China to find that President XI did NOT greet him at the airport.

MAGA is in spin mode heralding the “red carpet treatment,” but the visit is already at a rocky start.

Instead of a presidential welcome, Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to China David Perdue; Xi’s vice president, Han Zheng; China’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng; and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu.

I’m sure Trump would hate if you shared this and rubbed it in all day long.

Link to tweet

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[Blue Owl]

1. Instead, send in China's pedophile execution squad

Please.

[Amishman]

2. No shocker - trump bombed and blockaded China's primary gas station

The amount of oil China imports is staggering - 11 million barrels per day.

They had been satisfying that need easily and cheaply buying grey market Iranian oil.

I imagine Xi is insanely pissed off at Trump.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Xi makes first move. Snap.

[leftstreet]

4. Where's Melania?

She usually helps him navigate those stairs

[wolfie001]

40. Hopefully picking out which hole she'll be buried next to

Just like the other one. No memoirs.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. trump does not look good

Link to tweet

[Deuxcents]

6. No grandiose reception? That's a shame 🙃

[riversedge]

7. No red carpet for Trump (none that I can see) --that alone is a hit to Trumps EGO!

[Deuxcents]

10. I think he expected a lot more than kids waving flags as he arrived with his billionaire entourage

I think XI expects a no nonsense meeting and TSF is not prepared

[TheProle]

16. y'all are fucking tripping.

I get Trump hate as much as anyone, but it was certainly a coordinated state reception, and I can find nothing to suggest that Xi was ever going to be there to greet him on the red carpet. There is "fighting the good fight" and there is delusion.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/politics/live-news/trump-china-visit-arrival-ceremony-hnk

President Donald Trump has just landed in Beijing to an arrival ceremony replete with the pomp and pageantry the US president is known to appreciate.

In a show of the importance of the trip, China’s leader Xi Jinping has dispatched a high-level official to lead the welcome delegation — Chinese Vice President Han Zheng.

Han is widely seen as Xi’s envoy for diplomatic events and last year attended Trump’s presidential inauguration. He is a retired member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Chinese Communist Party’s top-most decision making body.

Other officials on the ground include US Ambassador to China David Perdue, his counterpart Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng, and China’s executive vice minister of foreign affairs, Ma Zhaoxu, according to the White House.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/13/politics/live-news/trump-china-visit-arrival-ceremony-hnk?post-id=cmp4029iv00043b6ci5fa85sh

[ornotna]

27. You seem upset that some here are enjoying this obvious snub

Why is that?

[TheProle]

35. There was no expectation that Xi would be there, so

the breathless BREAKING tag and the delusion that Trump "arrived in China to find that President XI did NOT greet him at the airport" is neither breaking nor news, merely protocol arranged and understood in advance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/world/asia/trump-china-arrival-airport-presidents.html

As usual, it's not hard to find the republican version of such asinine clickbait from Democratic presidencies:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/04/barack-obama-deliberately-snubbed-by-chinese-in-chaotic-arrival-at-g20

[Ponietz]

36. Thanks for reality check -- it gets downvoted these days

[MustLoveBeagles]

44. Heartbreaking

[NJCher]

8. I'm surprised he wasn't disinvited

It's evident his promises mean nothing. Why waste the time?

[malaise]

9. He said Xi would give him a big hug

Xi stayed away. What a snub.

Add link
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china/article/331806/Big-hug-or-colder-shoulder-Xi-Trump-talks-spotlight-contrasting-styles-expectations


Donald Trump has said he expects a "big, fat hug" from China's Xi Jinping when they meet in Beijing this week, though multiple thorny issues between the two sides could see the US president kept at arm's length.

Taiwan, tariffs, rare earths and the war in Iran are among the contentious topics set to be discussed by the two leaders, whose styles of communication could hardly be more different.

Trump's often bombastic, freewheeling comportment on the international stage contrasts dramatically with Xi's measured, tight-lipped approach to foreign policy.

Source URL : 'Big hug' or colder shoulder? Xi-Trump talks spotlight contrasting styles, expectations | The Standard
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china/article/331806/

[dem4decades]

11. Ha ha

[Vinca]

12. Different from the slobbering Trump/Putin greeting.

[Johonny]

13. Trump is a grumpy stupid moron

With little knowledge of reality or details. Xi has better intelligence and better understanding of how to handle Trump. Trump will get abused in this meeting and come out feeling like a champ. Because he's stupid.

[ahnakneemoose]

14. My Hope

Is that all uninvited guests are blocked from meetings and that they must get their own food.

[malaise]

15. Should be interesting to watch

Rec

[COL Mustard]

20. I bet they can get good Chinese carryout!

The authentic stuff, too...not like what we get here.

[Omnipresent]

29. I would be a little nervous if i were trump.

He could catch one of those viruses that are supposedly created in labs over there.
Trump might not make it back home alive!

[MustLoveBeagles]

45. Wouldn't that be a shame

[Hugin]

17. For most of the world outside of the Fox/MAGA Trump cult...

It’s just another day.

[Prairie_Seagull]

18. It's well known that the Chinese are

sensitive to smells.

[Grim Chieftain]

19. Sir! Sir! That's a snub, sir!

[Tommy Carcetti]

21. Now they know how Zelensky feels when he visits here.

Good.

[Kid Berwyn]

22. Like in "The Long Good Friday"

Harold from Stepney thought Charlie from Brooklyn would appreciate the snobbery in London. Same thing in Beijing.



“Does the Queen greet the president when he flies in to Heathrow?”

[GiqueCee]

23. This is...

... a serious loss of face for Trump, although he's too ignorant to realize it. "Face" is VERY important to the Chinese, and in this context it is a subtle, but unmistakable dope-slap upside the head to a dumb-ass American who is doing his damnedest to fuck up the world.

[rubbersole]

24. What a waste of a fresh diaper.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

25. This happened in 2017 as well. But this time he was greeted by the vice president instead of a state councilor, so it's

actually an upgrade from nine years ago.

[MineralMan]

26. A Xi Power Play Right There.

[Prairie Gates]

43. That's Biden, guy.

[kimbutgar]

49. Kind of looks like Biden

[walkingman]

30. More than likely they were scrambling to find some deodorant. ☮

[quakerboy]

31. Why would a vassal of a subordinate power expect to be treated like an emperor?

Xi doesnt need to roll out the red carpet for putins lackey.

[Blue Full Moon]

32. China's news didn't cover Trump either.

[twodogsbarking]

33. Fooled me. I thought he was gonna fall. Maybe next time.

[Ray Bruns]

34. The master does not go out to meet the slave.

[NCDem47]

37. Welp...the first power move by Xi

[orangecrush]

38. What a slap

[twodogsbarking]

39. XI wants to LXXXIV XLVII.

[Liberal In Texas]

47. LXXXVI

Close.
Cute.

[ananda]

48. Ooops. It's LXXXVI

IV = 4

[FakeNoose]

41. I'm trying to remember when Chump has ever greeted a visitor at the airport

I'm thinking it has never happened. Why should he be treated differently when he visits another country?

[magicarpet]

42. Hope Trump had to hitchhike from the airport to his hotel room with five big suitcases in tow.

[ChicagoTeamster]

46. Is there anywhere that Trump is still respected? International travel will be dangerous for his sons after he's gone

They're going to need 24/7/52 bodyguards if intel agency assassins and from Russia, Iran, Israel, Venezuela along with various right wing groups in America who Trump betrayed come after his family. They better get used to living on McDonalds.