Bachmann Beat: Chatting with Trump About the Chinese Challenge

Sixth-district congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has gone on the offensive against President Obama, blaming him for the Congressional supercommittee’s failure to reach an agreement on the $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction deal.

She said he shouldn’t have been “AWOL” on a nine-day trip to Asia, and compared his absence to the children’s book “Where’s Waldo.” 

Bachmann met with former Republican presidential candidate and billionaire business mogul Donald Trump on Monday and discussed the threat that China poses the United States.

"We have a lot in common–both of us see the threat that we have from the Chinese to our economy," Bachmann told reporters after their meeting. "We see how they are stealing away market share and also jobs out of the United States."

She said they also talked about how OPEC "is strangling the United States consumer based upon the price at the [gasoline] pump."

Bachmann’s Republican rival Newt Gingrich has added her former New Hampshire director Jeff Chidester to his campaign staff. He is the second ex-Bachmann aide to join Gingrich’s campaign.

And Bachmann’s Iowa campaign co-chair said that legalizing gay marriage could lead to women marrying the Eiffel Tower.

Bonus: Media outlets roundup the “juiciest” parts of Bachmann’s memoir and curate a list of Bachmann parodies.