Trump turns trade deal signing into rambling hour-plus monologue
by Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times
Jan 15, 2020
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - It was meant to be a relatively brief photo op to celebrate a relatively modest trade agreement with the Chinese.
But President Donald Trump has never been one to honor "brief" when combined with "photo op," much less risk accusations of modesty.
So as four Chinese government ministers and senior trade officials stood like blank-faced statues beside him in the gilded East Room, Trump began talking. And
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