13th May Chinese whispers

 


Showing the world once again that he has his finger firmly on the pulse of important things, President Donald Trump has spent his first day of his visit to China refering to the president of China as President Eleven.

Despite repeated attempts by the Secret Service to inform him of his numerically inspired linguistic error, President Trump continued to stick to his guns resulting in very confused looks from translators who were just amazed that President Trump even knew what Roman numerals were.

 

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