Trump offers Xi tour of White House ballroom project, draws mockery

rawstory.com —

President Donald Trump offered Chinese President Xi Jinping a tour of his controversial White House ballroom construction site as a "special treat" during a state dinner Thursday, prompting immediate online mockery. Trump invited guests to view the project, calling it one year from completion and honoring Xi as the first to see it. Critics on social media questioned the security implications of showing a foreign delegation the site. Commenters including journalists and academics ridiculed the offer, with some comparing it to a bunker tour and questioning why sensitive construction would be shown to a geopolitical rival.


With a significance score of 1.5, this news ranks in the top 34% of today's 30364 analyzed articles.

Get summaries of news with significance over 5.5 (usually ~10 stories per week). Read by 10,000+ subscribers: