Donald Trump said he had separately warned both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping that he would bomb their respective capitals if either of them invaded their neighbors, newly released audio broadcast by CNN shows.

The U.S. president was recorded speaking at a private fundraiser in 2024 about his conversations with Putin and Xi.

“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m gonna bomb the s*** out of Moscow,’” Trump is heard saying, recounting his version of their conversation. He also said with Xi he also threatened to “bomb the s*** out of Beijing” if it invaded Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its own.

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    15 hours ago

    Why would China invade itself?

    Xi: “If you invade Texas I’ll bomb the shit out of DC”

    Trump: 😱😱😱

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        57 minutes ago

        He meant Taiwan. Which is the original China.

        Average sinophobe: completely uneducated about even the basic facts of China

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        8 hours ago

        The original china is clearly not on taiwan wtf. Look up the “Great Wall of China” in an atlas.

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        The ROCs(Far right nationalists) initial rise is inseparable from the PRC (Communists) as they were working together to Reunify all of China at the beginning.

        After the breaking of this alliance by the ROC, purging the PRC to establish their far right nationalist base, they only lasted about 20 years, before the PRC regained far more support, resorting to the ROC ultimately retreating to the island of Tawain while the PRC continued focus on the original goal of uniting the mainland, which it achieved, and has thus ruled far more of China longer than the ROC ruled the sections they held.

        By no stretch of the imagination can you claim that the ROC has rightful claim over the whole of China.