LOL, I'm hardly a doomer. If you look at my posts ITT I'm generally supportive of Trump and I believe in his agenda.
It's just in this case, watching the staged reception when he got off the plane and the parade, with the soldiers and the kids, it seemed...off. Like I know that the CCP is very good at that sort of spectacle, but I got the vibe they were going all out because they knew Trump would love it, to the point where they were playing him. The whole thing smacks of a massive propaganda coup.
Whether it ends up being favorable for us as far as the deals and negotiations, they will absolutely use this as "Look at the Americans coming to us in supplication to our Superior Chinese Nation!"
Now that may just work internally with them, but I just got a vibe that Trump played into their hands. It seems different from him meeting with Putin, King Charles, even Kim Jong Un.