On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
All started with a video which we have posted below. A Fan goes up to her and gives her a bunch of Hydrangeas She accepts it gracefully but while putting the flowers away she says "I absolutely loath Hydrangeas, he obviously doesn't know that'. Damage control is now on but who will repair the feeling of all the Hydrangeas in the world. Her publicist has this to say "She's entitled to like any flower she wants and she didn't want to hurt the feelings of the hydrangeas of the world. No disrespect to the hydrangeas lovers of the world, but she prefers different types of flowers.
This has started a new Internet meme, with videos appearing on YouTube making fun of that statement. In the video below shot in old school style you see Madonna showing love on a bunch of Hydrangeas before suddenly stomping on them and saying. 'F*** you it's a free world and I like roses'.
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