President Trump said it only took him “one sentence” with Chinese President Xi Jinping to lift the ban on American beef in China.
“The other administrations couldn’t even come close. And I told him, you know how long it took? One sentence. I said, ‘President Xi we’d love to sell beef back in China again.’ He said, ‘you can do that.’ That was the end of that. Right?” Trump said during the kick off of the White House’s “Made in America” week to promote American manufacturing.
China banned imports of American beef in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease.
“The gentleman who was in charge of Omaha beef, they do beef. He hugged me. He wanted to kiss me so badly, because he said, our business is a whole different business now, because you got China approved,” Trump said.
