{"id":2669484,"date":"2026-09-24T20:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-xi-descends-into-laughter-as-trump-shows-off-president-autopen-picture-in-place-of-joe-bidens-portrait\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:54:35","slug":"watch-xi-descends-into-laughter-as-trump-shows-off-president-autopen-picture-in-place-of-joe-bidens-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-xi-descends-into-laughter-as-trump-shows-off-president-autopen-picture-in-place-of-joe-bidens-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Xi Descends Into Laughter as Trump Shows off &#8216;President Autopen&#8217; Picture in Place of Joe Biden&#8217;s Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-xi-descends-into-laughter-as-trump-shows-off-president-autopen-picture-in-place-of-joe-bidens-portrait%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2669484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided content describes a humorous yet pointed incident involving White House aide Margo Martin, President Donald Trump, Chinese president Xi Jinping, and the broader context of U.S. political and diplomatic vulnerabilities. During a White House tour, Trump showed Xi a photo of Biden with an autopen signature, prompting laughter from Xi and the room. This moment, captured and shared on social media, symbolized the perceived decline of President Biden, which China reportedly observed and exploited over years of diplomatic engagement. Analysts and critics argue that Xi Jinping recognized Biden&#8217;s diminished capacity due too age and health, leading to strategic advantages for China-such as continued military buildup, leverage over global supply chains, and diplomatic patience. The article emphasizes that China&#8217;s actions were based on careful assessment rather than conspiracy,highlighting that the U.S. should acknowledge its compromised leadership rather than dismiss thes developments as mere political gaffes. the piece criticizes the perception of American weakness and suggests that China\u2019s confidence and strategic planning have grown as a result.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>White House aide Margo Martin posted a clip Thursday that was as funny as it was infuriating.<\/p>\n<p>While giving Chinese President Xi Jinping a West Wing tour that included the White House \u201cPresidential Walk of Fame,\u201d President Donald Trump showed the portrait that depicts former President Joe Biden with an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-unveils-west-wing-presidential-walk-fame-bidens-picture-replaced-autopen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> image of an autopen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Xi laughed out loud and the room played along, but for Americans the moment was far more serious.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.@POTUS shows President Xi the Biden Autopen photo \ud83e\udd23 https:\/\/t.co\/L0PbjQe2Aj<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MargoMartin47\/status\/2103182829383458873?\">September 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk even joined in on the conversation by commenting on Martin\u2019s post with a tears-of-laughter emoji.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\">@MargoMartin47 @POTUS \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2103189988171018749?\">September 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  Xi Jinping did not need a tour of the White House to see that Joe Biden was fading; he had dealt with him for years. Through successive summits, Beijing observed the shortened schedules, the tightly managed exits, and the aides directing the president toward the correct podium. Chinese intelligence files on American leaders are not compiled by cable-news producers. They are crafted by analysts whose sole job is to pinpoint strategic vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>And China knew Biden had plenty of them.<\/p>\n<p>Americans know it, too. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/special-counsel-report-states-biden-elderly-man-poor-memory-dealing-massive-blow-democrats-live-cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special counsel\u2019s report<\/a>, the debate night that ended a candidacy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/quarter-mil-rep-burchetts-bombshell-autopen-claim-says-find-autopen-staffers-sold-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">autopen pardons<\/a>, the staff who treated the presidency like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-autopen-fraud-exposed-wh-s-show-biden-staff-used-special--trick-get-around-safeguards-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signature machine<\/a>. That record has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/biden-decline-impairment-president-house-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump holding the picture is not subtle. It is the current occupant of the White House telling the Chinese leader that Washington acknowledges what Beijing already priced in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThis is the autopen\u2026 it\u2019s Biden.\u201d \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<p>President Trump shows off the legendary Presidential Walk of Fame to President Xi. https:\/\/t.co\/qUQEM6XoLj<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2103185540262826055?\">September 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  Xi can laugh at four things at once.<\/p>\n<p>First, Trump\u2019s nerve. Few American presidents would walk a rival through the White House and stop at a portrait meant as a punchline. Xi gets the theater. He also gets that the man doing it is not the one who spent four years in a White House fog.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/5353958-biden-autopen-investigation-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">autopen presidency<\/a>. If a machine can sign what a president cannot explain, the other side of the table updates its model. Treaties, waivers, export rules, and talking points still went out under Biden\u2019s name. Xi did not have to believe the man in the Oval Office was running the shop. He only had to notice who was not stopping him.<\/p>\n<p>Third, the advantage taken. While liberal American media outlets argued over whether it was rude to mention Biden\u2019s age, China kept building ships, wiring the Global South, squeezing the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/philippines-dispute-south-china-sea-patrol-27ee9778f7302938c5090644e3d153c2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippines<\/a>, and waiting out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/putins-ukraine-invasion-has-made-russia-chinas-junior-partner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> fatigue. A diminished counterpart is not a mystery to a dictator. It is a planning assumption.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, the cost to America. That is the laugh that should sting. The joke might be funny in the West Wing. It is less funny if the years of Biden drift show up in the Taiwan Strait, in fentanyl precursor traffic, in the rare-earth leverage, in the universities that sold research while pretending the Chinese Communist Party is a climate partner.<\/p>\n<p>If you are running China, what is not to love about your biggest rival country spending a full presidential term insisting the emperor had clothes?<\/p>\n<p>None of that requires a conspiracy memo. It requires a functioning memory. Biden\u2019s decline was visible to voters who do not have intelligence briefings. It was visible to allied leaders who shortened meetings. It was certainly visible to Xi, who has never been in the business of granting the United States the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n<p>The proper American response is not to scold Trump for being gauche. It is to stop pretending that the Chinese-American relationship during the Biden years was a normal negotiation between peers. China took the measure of the man and of the staff who hid him. Then it acted like a great power that had been given time.<\/p>\n<p>Xi knows it. He took advantage of it. Americans know it. 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