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.
Actually, I think that is why they put him to the side in the group picture so he could scratch his crotch in peace.
I hear he is now also going to wear his pants to reveal some butt crack to go along with the gum chewing.