You should have spoken to him in Mandarin that he was correct, it is a hoax, but don't tell anyone. If you can't actually speak Mandarin, try Cantonese or, failing that, just wing it. Wasn't he the guy who got in trouble (but couldn't understand why) for calling a non-white reporter "Macaca" or some other racist name? he was ahead of his time! No one would bat an eye if any Republican did that today.
It was a couple years ago, a week or two after the notice of the White House removing the Climate Change data from public websites.
Projection, it runs in the family. Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump Oct 31 “…surrounded by enemies and spies catching and perverting every word that falls from my lips or flows from my pen, and inventing where facts fail them.” -Thomas Jefferson’s reflections on Washington, D.C. in a letter to his daughter Martha. Some things never change, dad!