'I would get him a McDonald's hamburger': Trump says Xi Jinping shouldn't be given a state dinner when he visits Washington

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Published: 12:15pm, 26 Aug 2015Updated: 3:03pm, 19 Sep 2016

Xi Jinping is coming to dinner - and Donald Trump ain’t pleased.

In an appearance on Monday evening on the The O’Reilly Factor, the presidential candidate and sayer of things about China criticised the Obama administration for its plans to hold a state dinner when the Chinese president visits Washington next month.

"I would not be throwing him a dinner. I would get him a McDonald’s hamburger and say we’ve got to get down to work because you can’t continue to devalue," he said, according to a transcript published by the Daily Caller.

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China's president Xi Jinping will visit Washington next month - but Trump has waded over menu suggestions. Photo: AFP

"We’ll give him a state dinner and what he has done is suck all the jobs, suck all the money right out of our country."

But the proposed breach of diplomatic protocol is nothing personal, it seems. Trump said the problem was not China or its president. When talked turned to "trade wars" between China and the United States, Trump called China’s leaders "intelligent."

"Their leaders are intelligent. Ours aren’t. We don’t know what we are doing."

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