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Trump Mocked After China's President Xi Looks Absolutely Miserable To Meet Him In Cringey Video
Trump's post-Xi meeting assessment was high, with the POTUS saying:
"...on a scale from zero to 10, with 10 being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12."
Trump added:
"It was an outstanding group of decisions I think that was made. A lot of decisions were made too, there wasn't too much left out there."
Despite Trump's bunch of words that didn't really say anything substantive, others had a very different viewpoint on the meeting's success.
India's Hindustan Times reported:
"Tense body language, muted diplomacy but no major deal. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s long-awaited Busan meeting ended with an awkward exchange caught on camera, as Trump tried to speak to Xi twice before the Chinese leader turned away."
The media outlet shared a video of the awkward interaction on YouTube.
The Hindustan Times added:
"While Trump hailed it as an 'amazing meeting,' Beijing offered only a one-year lift on rare earth export bans and no deal on AI chips. With no Taiwan talks and no trade breakthrough, the optics spoke louder than words—six years later, nothing truly changes between Washington and Beijing."
On social media, video of a Trump Xi photo-op went viral for its cringe factor.
Trump was effusive with his praise for Xi as they posed for photos, but the Chinese leader remained tight-lipped.
Trump gushed:
"The very very distinguished and respected President of China and we will be having some discussions, I think we have already agreed to a lot of things and we will agree to some more right now. But President Xi is a great leader of a great country and I think we're going to have a fantastic relationship for a long period of time..."
To Xi, Trump said:
"...and it's an honor to have you with us."
Xi barely responded. He barely looked at Trump, who looked like a student fawning over one of the popular kids—a position Trump often takes with the "strongmen" he admires: dictators and authoritarians like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Nayib Bukele.
People found it all a bit pathetic.
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Trump isn't going to make the nickname TACO go away any time soon with such foreign policy blunders.
Trump can try to spin his capitulation as a win, but no one outside the MAGAsphere will buy what he's selling—including China.
As a result of their less than two hour meeting, China agreed to buy fewer soybeans from the United States while Trump will be removing and lowering more tariffs on Chinese goods.
HOA Bans Outsiders from Trick-or-Treating
The post’s flair summed it up perfectly:
“Pull up the drawbridge! There are peasants at the gate!”
Honestly, the only thing missing was a moat filled with Pumpkin Spice Latte foam.
Halloween rules are where HOAs really excel, like Michael Myers, the moment you light a jack-o’-lantern. Over the years, we’ve seen HOAs ban skeletons, restrict wreath sizes, or fine residents for “unauthorized spider webs.” But this viral Halloween letter? It might just steal the pumpkin-shaped cake.
The HOA warned residents that too many “non-resident” children were flooding the neighborhood in search of candy. Apparently, Halloween joy had become an outside threat. Their solution? Grinch patrol for toddlers in costume.
The note began with classic HOA melodrama:
“As we prepare for Halloween, the [redacted in Sharpie pen] HOA board would like to address an ongoing concern that has affected the quality of our neighborhood’s celebration in recent years…”
The letter went on to lament an invasion of outsiders and depleted candy reserves, as though suburban streets were the last bastion of civilization.
The HOA amped up the suspense like a Twilight Zone episode, warning of foreign invaders armed with pillowcases and cute plastic pumpkins:
“Our community has long taken pride in offering a safe, charming, and well-organized Halloween experience; something that unfortunately has attracted large groups from outside neighborhoods. These visitors often arrive in packed vehicles, crowd our streets, and diminish the experience for our own children…”
To “preserve neighborhood integrity,” the HOA proposed the following:
“Trick-or-treating will be limited to children who reside in [redacted]. Volunteers will be stationed at the entrance to check vehicles during the designated trick-or-treat window: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Friday, October 31. Residents expecting guests from outside the neighborhood are encouraged to make alternate plans.”
Translation: show proof of residence before you get a Reese’s.
You can view the full HOA horror script here:
And just like that, the HOA achieved what few horror villains can: Reddit thread unity.
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Still, beneath the Halloween absurdity lurks a deeper issue: HOAs love control more than ghosts love chains.
According to the Foundation for Community Association Research:
“As of 2022, roughly one-quarter of Americans (74 million) lived in community associations, which are privately governed, planned residential communities.”
In theory, HOAs promote “community well-being.” In practice, they often act like tiny governments with no chill and even less oversight, policing porch colors, garden gnomes, and now, apparently, trick-or-treaters.
Historically, HOAs have roots in exclusion, born from postwar suburban developments that used racially restrictive covenants to keep Black families and other people of color out of specific neighborhoods.
Even after such covenants were outlawed, the legacy of segregation persisted beyond zoning laws, “architectural standards,” and selective enforcement of rules that quietly maintained racial and class boundaries cleverly disguised as hypocritical regulations.
As Business Insider notes, HOA neighborhoods today still skew whiter and wealthier than those without associations, and Black homeowners continue to face higher rates of fines, violations, and disputes. So when an HOA bans “outsiders,” it’s not just about candy—it’s a modern echo of those old exclusionary practices, hanging in the fog like a haunted house built on unfinished history.
So really, it’s less Get Out and more Stay Out (Per HOA Karen Amendment #31: Thou Shalt Not Share Candy). Happy Halloween to all, except to the folks who wrote this HOA letter.
Boy Meets World's Mr. Feeny Schools Trump With Blistering Take On His Destruction Of The White House East Wing
Daniels had starred in 1776 on Broadway, for which he earned and turned down a Tony Award nomination in 1969, before the musical became a film in 1972.
Daniels captioned the photo:
"We performed ‘1776’ in the beautiful East Room when Nixon was in the White House."
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In perhaps a reference to Trump's petty, puerile behavior—like denying disaster aid to states he didn't win in the 2024 election—Daniels shared:
"He was very gracious even though none of us had voted for him."
The veteran actor—who will be 100 in 2027—added:
"The current president has ripped a piece of history from our lives and we mustn’t take this lightly."
A few of Trump's MAGA minions were in the comments to defend their Dear Leader.
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Their comments revealed their ignorance of White House history, but they were just parroting the Trump administration's justification for the destruction.
The Trump administration dismissed widespread criticism of Trump's vanity project and destruction of the East Wing as "manufactured outrage."
They produced a "fact" sheet of renovations that Presidents made to the property over the last century to suggest this one is no different and give Trump's acolytes rebuttals for critics like Daniels, but actual facts expose Trump's ballroom as the self-serving tribute to Trump's ego that it is.
Washington D.C. is full of venues to hold state events. The White House was intended as a presidential residence and office, not an event venue or a palace like Trump's home, Mar-a-Lago.
The East Wing, like the West Wing, was built in 1902 during the presidency of Republican Theodore Roosevelt, making both structures 123 years old. The West Wing was heavily renovated in 1934 and the East in 1942 during the presidency of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
To claim the East Wing dates to only the 1940s is like claiming the White House is just 73 years old because of the complete interior reconstruction done between 1948-1952 by Democratic President Harry S. Truman to modernize the structure and correct structural deficiencies.
But the White House is considered to be 223 years old. Construction on the White House began in 1792 and was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800. During the War of 1812, the British—which included Canadian based forces—burned the White House in retaliation for an attack against York, Canada—which became Toronto.
The White House was rebuilt in 1817, but isn't considered 208 years old.
Another major fire occurred in 1929, this time in the West Wing, which required extensive reconstruction. The West Wing was later expanded during the 1934 renovations.
WWII prompted the renovations and expansion of the East Wing, to cover a bunker and provide more space for war time personnel and operations. The space was repurposed again during Truman's gutting of the interior less than a decade later.
Despite Trump and his MAGA minions' claims to the contrary, both FDR's and Truman's renovations were heavily criticized and controversial at the time. But both proved necessary for the country and the preservation of the building, whereas Trump's ballroom is a convenience, but not a necessity.
Kate Andersen Brower, author of The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, told NPR's Here & Now:
"The Truman Balcony was something that was really controversial at the time, and now it's one of the most beloved parts of the White House for the president and their family to be sitting outside looking out on the South Lawn."
"[Truman] wasn't going to take no for an answer, but he did go through the channels to get approval for this renovation. And we're not seeing President Trump do the same thing."
Priya Jain, chair of the Society of Architectural Historians' Heritage Conservation Committee, told NPR:
"In the list [of White House renovations] issued yesterday, if you look at it closely, all the changes after 1942 have been limited to the interior."
"And the ones on the exterior either involved simple restoration or minor site additions like the tennis court and the pavilion, which are limited by their scope, size and visibility to have any negative impact on the historic building."
People appreciated Daniels' post and stance.
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Demolition crews began wrecking the East Wing of the White House on Trump’s orders to make room for his ballroom to the dismay of preservationists and historians and a majority of Americans.
Brower told NPR a case could be made for expanding entertaining space at the White House, but:
"I don't think that it has to be of this size and scope, two football fields big and larger than the White House itself."
Unless it's just about making a very small man feel really big.