\u201cReal Time\u201d host Bill Maher<\/a> tore into President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a> in Beijing this week, riffing on what their interactions could mean when it comes to Xi\u2019s leverage over his American counterpart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cChina knows what Trump likes. What does he like? He likes the pomp and the parades, and he likes the red carpet, and there were thousands of children waving American flags,\u201d Maher said<\/a>. \u201cYou know, Xi, he\u2019s clever, you know, he knows, he bargained like someone who knows he holds the cards now, ever since Trump backed down on their big trade war. In fact, as a subtle dig, they served orange chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Evan Vucci\/Pool Photo via AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Maher went on to note Xi\u2019s remark that America was in decline, as well as Trump\u2019s attempt to claim the Chinese leader was really talking about former President Joe Biden<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cHe just said, \u2018Well, you know what, when he said declining nation, he was talking about Biden\u2019s four years,\u2019\u201d Maher said, referring to Trump\u2019s lengthy Truth Social post on Thursday<\/a>. \u201cAnd Trump was right, under Trump, gas prices, they haven\u2019t declined. Inflation, that\u2019s not declining.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Maher added that the affection Trump seems to have for Xi seemed \u201ca little weird,\u201d before calling out the bizarre comments<\/a> Trump made about Xi\u2019s appearance during a Fox News<\/a> interview on Thursday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI\u2019m glad our leaders of these two powerful countries with nuclear weapons aren\u2019t fighting, but it\u2019s getting a little, you know, personal,\u201d Maher said. \u201cTrump said, you know what he said about Xi? He said if you went to Hollywood, you couldn\u2019t find in Central Casting a better guy.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cAt one point, he said, Xi, your hair smells terrific,\u201d Maher quipped. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cReal Time\u201d host Bill Maher tore into President Donald Trump\u2019s state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, riffing on what their interactions could mean when it comes to Xi\u2019s leverage over his American counterpart. \u201cChina knows what Trump likes. What does he like? He likes the pomp and the parades, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2420111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[309127,22389,46421,347197,459872],"class_list":["post-2420110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-bill-maher","tag-donald-trump","tag-late-night","tag-real-time","tag-xi-jinping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bill-Maher-Skewers-Power-Chinas-President-Has-Over-Trump.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420112,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420110\/revisions\/2420112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"U.S.](\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/6a087df71d0000b221a13ea5.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp)
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