Donald Trump’s Beijing state banquet with Xi Jinping has triggered a massive online storm — not over diplomacy, but over a mysterious missing cushion. Viral clips show a staffer adjusting Trump’s chair before the dinner, only for the cushion to reportedly be removed moments later. Social media users now claim the seating arrangement made Trump appear visibly shorter beside Xi, despite Trump officially being taller. Was this just an awkward banquet moment, or carefully choreographed Chinese stage management? As Trump praised Xi and Beijing warned of the “Thucydides Trap,” the internet became obsessed with one question: was Trump deliberately made to “sink” beside Xi?
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