Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) responded to President-elect Trump’s invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend Inauguration Day in January, saying his acceptance would send a global “signal.”
“Look, I think Trump believes in constant offense, constant momentum, keeping things going forward,” Gingrich told Fox New’s Jesse Watters in an interview Wednesday.
“I think he gets up every day and tries to figure out, you know, ‘Let’s go to McDonald’s or let’s go to the garbage truck,’ whatever it takes, but he wants to be on offense,” he continued. “I suspect he woke up, looked around and thought, ‘Yeah, I think my good friend Xi Jinping, we haven’t been together in a long time, why don’t I?’”
Trump extended the invitation to Xi last month, shortly after he beat Vice President Harris to win back the White House, but it wasn’t clear if the Chinese leader had accepted it, CBS News reported. The president-elect’s team has also raised the possibility of other global leaders attending the transitional ceremony, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Trump has often touted his relationship with Xi, even as he plans to introduce hefty tariffs on China in the upcoming term.
The two have met before, including when Trump invited Xi to his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2017.
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