Allegedly trump begged Xi to buy more soybeans and grain because trump desperately needed the farm vote?
Imagine waxing poetic about how great a man Xi was/is calling him the best leader China ever had? That was then. What's going on now?
I dunno. I think begging for anything is diminishing. ESPECIALLY if it for self-aggrandizement self-promotion selfish and self-centered.
Begging for someone's life? Don't know if that ever worked but if it did at least it would be begging on behalf of good for others and not self.