CHINA/NBA/SPORTS: “I got the basketball players out — the three basketball players — that was a beautiful scene. I was in China. And you have these three, you know, potential stars — and I guess they’re going into the NBA draft, or just have — but I said, ‘Would you do me a favor? Three players were just arrested.’ They were arrested for stealing — in Louis Vuitton — sunglasses.
And I wasn’t happy with those three players because they never gave our country much credit for having gotten them out. And believe me, they’d be in jail. Stealing in a store in China is a very big offense.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 2019 White House Business Session with our Nation’s Governors,” whitehouse.gov, Feb. 25, 2019