You don't hold meetings with the leaders of the world's top powers chomping on gum. Its utterly classless.
I agree. He looks like a 10 year old who cannot tie his shoe laces! Watching him in China I got the impression he was out of his league and had no idea what he was doing there.
“Over gum? Seriously? I honestly can’t find it rude if someone is chewing gum around me.
You don’t hold meetings with the leaders of the world’s top powers chomping on gum. Its utterly classless.”
Never mind world leaders - would you do this when meeting a prospective business client? If so, you would probably do it only once.
Indeed, totally classless. Tacky and even downright unmanly as well. Not the kind of comportment befitting a leader, to put it mildly. He might have just as well gotten up on stage and scratched his crotch in front of everybody.
I don’t care, per se, that the Chinese were offended. But this is the kind of action that puts on display throughout the world that the United States is no longer a serious country. A serious country would not have such a pathetic individual as its leader. We have fully “earned” the disrespect we receive.