Donald Trump boasts about his ‘very, very large brain’ – and China respects this

US President Donald Trump gave a shout-out Wednesday to “the leading authority on China,” sparking a flurry of Google searches as viewers raced to identify him.

“If you look at Mr Pillsbury, the leading authority on China,” Trump told a press conference in New York Wednesday.

“He was saying China has total respect for Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s very, very large brain.”

Trump was referring to Michael Pillsbury, a long-time China hand who wrote the 2015 book The Hundred Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.

Pillsbury is director of the Centre on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.