but you're right. it's continuation of a pattern of all the trump trips where he relishes playing the role of the bull in the china shop. he doesn't stick to the normal rules as a president, it's all about confrontation and not cooperation. we have seen a president who seems to be flailing a bit under the pressure of the signs that the american economy is starting to slow down and the negative ramifications of the china trade deal. he's misrepresenting the state of negotiations just in the last few hours he said he had a constructive call with the high level official to restart talks and the chinese have no record of such call. they're not sure that that happened. what he's talked about. and we have seen him skip the meeting on the climate change which is the most existential threat that the nation faces and french president macron said he won't ask him to rejoin the paris climate agreement.