Better situation than Eastern China, though. Beijing averages 27 degrees in January but gets about the same annual snowfall as Seattle because the winters are so dry. Would be like a constant December 2009 living there.
Further north, Harbin has brutally cold winters (colder than Minneapolis) but gets just about 18”/year. In that part of the world, the vast majority of precipitation falls during the summer monsoon.
No way. Even Trump has enough awareness to know how bad that word is. I do think it's possible he's said it privately, but so far nobody has been able to show a tape.