Jake Sullivan on Trump, Xi and Putin
Sullivan's read on Trump's thing for strongmen: he watches Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin run their countries and thinks "I want what they have." Sullivan says the appeal is obvious to him, these guys dominate their nations, and Trump wants that same model for himself. "How cool is that? I want to be like that."
Transcript (en)
like these guys. Then second, he's always looked at Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and said, I want what they have. These are strong men. They dominate their countries. How cool is that? I want to be like that. He said that, by the way, this is not Jake Sullivan's interpretation of what Donald Trump may be thinking. He says. Yeah. And you.
