All About China‼️
Trump’s China trip touches every part of his presidency
Morning to night🌄: The Chinese have home-field advantage — they aren’t jetlagged.
🏠It’s their city, their time zone, etc.
Team USA is having meetings literally overnight to their body clocks
🚗Trump leaves the hotel for a day of meetings at 9:40 p.m ET tonight
Tonight📺: Chris Cillizza and Steve Cortes are with us as we watch POTUS depart
Must watch📺: Bill O’Reilly last night on Cuomo laid out the stakes
O’Reilly: “The problem is there are unintended consequences, and that’s inflation. That’s angry voters because they don’t like this. They don’t know about what the danger is. They know about their wallets shrinking. And that’s reality. So President Trump is gambling that he can turn it around, all right? And that all the prices will come down quickly if he can negate the Iranian government. ”
Must watch📺: Tonight, we have my good friend Elliot Ackerman and one of the men I admire the most, retired Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy — they just released their new book “2084” where America and China team up.
Inside baseball‼️: They are two of my favorite guests, but we can’t have them on very often because they are signed to other networks
📚Ah? In their runaway bestseller, “2034,” China and America went to war … we have to survive that first.
Paper tiger📃: They will tell us the real state of China’s military to back up all of President Xi’s bluster.
The Everything Trip ✈️
🛬Trump’s China trip touches every part of his presidency
❗Iran — The Chinese will ask Trump to sell out Taiwan in exchange for a “win” in Iran
❗Legacy — Trump, like every second-term president, wants the legacy of doing big things
❗COVID aftermath — Will Trump demand accountability for the 1,000,000-plus Americans China killed?
❗Fentanyl — China loves nothing more than dangling they will “crack down” on the precursor chemicals to fentanyl — as President Joe Biden would say, “Good luck in your senior year”
❗AI — America dominates, and China wants it
❗The world order — China believes it should equal and then surpass America as the world’s superpower
❗The economy — The world’s largest and second-largest economies are intertwined like a braided rope
Much of what Trump wants — the opening of Chinese markets and Chinese investment in the USA — comes at huge costs
China wants to challenge the dollar as the world’s currency
❗Rise of the socialist Left — The Chinese love Americans who demonize our core values
As we’ve reported📄: Neville Roy Singham lives in China and funds many of the Left’s protest groups
😬A California mayor just pled guilty to being a Chinese agent
🚨The Chinese are experts at exploiting American division
👀We can keep going — the stakes could not be higher
State of play🔴: President Xi rolled out the red carpet but didn’t come
📋Kids waved American and Chinese flags while the Chinese laid out a list of redlines and demands for the visit
What I’m thinking💭: You know the Nick Saban ad for VRBO where he gives his guests “the rules” — who does that in real life?
Watch tonight📺: Steve Yates, retired Gen. Philip Breedlove and Elaine Dezensky on the Chinese playbook of bullying, cheating and lying to get their way.
Struggle vs. War ‼️
🔥There’s a five-alarm fire in the economy, and Trump has not explained why confronting China is necessary — same with Iran.
🗣️All we hear is “things are going to get better”
Must read📰: Axios headlines “Trump’s five-alarm economy,” writing:
“The bottom is falling out on Trump’s economic credibility — the central promise of his return to power. The inflation crisis that doomed his predecessor suggests he may not recover.”
China’s view👀: China teaches its people the entire country is in a struggle for respect and dominance in the world.
⚠️They indoctrinate kids with cartoons about the evils of America — we teach gender ideology starting in second grade. It’s not hard to see who wins if that continues.
Flip side 🔃: Americans, when rallied to the cause of defending freedom and protecting America, will sacrifice a great deal — but that needs to be explained.
🚨China is like the Nazis and Soviets
💣Iran actually wants to build a nuclear weapon and spread Shia Islam
🤷This isn’t hard — Americans are smart
Yikes 😬: Asking China to help fix our economy is like going to get a payday loan and then blowing it at a strip club — no, really, they are not our friends.
Quiet part out loud🗣️: Much of the media is lampooning Trump’s comments that he doesn’t think about average Americans’ finances — that might be the best thing Trump said this week.
👀Both China and Iran must believe they can’t economically blackmail Trump.
Watch tonight📺: Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on why Trump and Republicans don’t put more faith in the American people, saying, yeah this is tough, but we need to go after these people