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Donald Trump Once Had A Much More 'Beautiful' Chocolate Cake

This cake featured Trump as Superman with a "$" on his chest.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Fox Business Network aired an interview with President Donald Trump where he revealed that he told the president of China, Xi Jinping, about the Syrian missile strike over “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake.”

“I was sitting at the table,” Trump recalled to Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo, “We had finished dinner. We’re now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen, and President Xi was enjoying it.”

Trump then misspoke, saying that he bombed Iraq before Bartiromo corrected him with a reminder that it was Syria.

“So what happens is, I said, ‘We’ve just launched 59 missiles heading to Iraq and I wanted you to know this.’ And he was eating his cake. And he was silent.”

Perhaps too much has already been said about how ridiculous it is that Trump remembered more about the cake served at his Mar-a-Lago estate than the country he bombed. We’ve all been forgetful one time or another, even if not about where we launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles just a few days ago.

But the thing is, Trump’s actually had a much more “beautiful” chocolate cake in the past. In comparison, this new piece of dessert shouldn’t have been anything to write home about, let alone fixate on while discussing his recent strike of a Syrian air base.

As The New York Times reported in 1996, Trump celebrated his 50th birthday with the most ridiculous beautiful cake of all time.

The celebration was unforgettably classy:

Then, as the Superman movie theme began to play, the cake was wheeled onto the stage ― with all of Mr. Trump’s buildings on it, and a sugar figure of Mr. Trump, dressed like Superman with a money sign on his chest. Ms. Kitt sang “Happy Birthday,” and 600 gold balloons cascaded from the ceiling.

Here’s Trump blowing out the candles on his “super” cake.

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Ron Galella via Getty Images

Here’s a slightly better view of the magnificent cake Trump really threw under the bus by calling his recent piece of cake “the most beautiful.”

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Ron Galella via Getty Images

Here’s Trump eating the 1996 chocolate cake, in what apparently was not a memorable experience.

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Ron Galella via Getty Images

Watch the Fox Business Network interview yourself and determine whether it was unfair of Trump to claim his new piece of chocolate cake was the best he ever had. 

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Before You Go

Trump's Ties
(01 of10)
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Since a tie that long can get caught in one’s zipper, it’s considered a fashion faux pas. Of course, so is holding a tie together with tape, something Donald Trump has also done on numerous occasions. (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(02 of10)
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University of Massachusetts psychology professor Susan Krauss Whitbourne speculates Trump wears his ties so long to either call attention to his genitalia or take the focus away from his protruding gut. (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(03 of10)
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But a new Twitter page, @TrumpsTies, isn’t psychoanalyzing why the president’s ties are so long. It’s just taking his bizarre style choice to its obvious extreme. (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(04 of10)
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The page's creator is a Chicago-based graphic artist hobbyist who doesn't want his name tied to the Twitter page. He insists it's not because he's afraid of being targeted by Trump trolls -- he just doesn't want his own identity to distract from the project. (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(05 of10)
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The creator considers his edited photos of Trump's fashion choices to be "a Rorschach test of satire." (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(06 of10)
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"People who are pro-Trump think it's cute," the creator said. "Anti-Trump people think it's funny, but less cute and more poignant." (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(07 of10)
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Although Trump and some of his followers tend to shout "fake news" when they read or hear something they don't like about the president, the man behind @TrumpTies says there can be no argument about the president's taste in fashion.

"He wears his ties too long," the creator said. "That's factual." (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(08 of10)
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The color of the tie doesn't matter, the creator said. What's important is how Trump is reacting to the other person in the photo. "But it's funny, how the tie becomes a character," he said. (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(09 of10)
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The Twitter page has only been around since February, but has nearly 25,000 followers. The creator admits to hoping circumstances might change so he doesn't have to follow Trump's ties through two presidential terms.

"Even four years is a long time," he said. (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
(10 of10)
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Now maybe someone can focus on Trump's other ties -- the ones with Russia. (credit:trumpsties/Twitter)
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