President Donald Trump spent part of his latest public ramble wishing his vice president would cower like one of Xi Jinping’s deputies.

The 79-year-old president veered away from boasting about his tariffs to making a glowing—but strange—tribute to China’s leader.

Trump said he wanted Vice President JD Vance exhibiting the same submissive tone that Chinese aides show around Xi.

“I put a 100 percent tariff on China as soon as I heard it, within 20 minutes, I put a 100 percent tariff on China with President Xi, who’s really a friend of mine, as much as he could be, a friend,” Trump said at the American Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday.

From there, he swerved into praising Xi’s cowering aides and setting up a punchline with Trump admitting he wants that kind of fear in his own ranks.

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