US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that China’s “beautiful ceremony” marking the end of World War II should have highlighted the role that the US played in Japan’s defeat. “I thought it was a beautiful ceremony. I thought it was very, very impressive,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, hours after he suggested on social media that foreign leaders meeting in Beijing might be conspiring against the US. “I watched the speech last night. President Xi is a friend of mine, but I thought that the United States should have been mentioned last night during that speech, because we helped China very, very much.” The Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
