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Trump’s Big Xi Meeting Ends Like This…

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Trump’s Big Xi Meeting Ends Like This…

Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met at the White House, where Trump was visibly sleepy and made several inappropriate remarks, including mocking past U.S. leaders and falsely claiming he had forged a “great friendship” with Xi. Xi addressed the Thucydides trap—highlighting the tension between rising China and declining U.S. power—stating it can be overcome through mutual understanding. A major diplomatic outcome was the agreement for two pandas to be sent to the Atlanta Zoo, symbolizing a goodwill gesture. Meanwhile, significant contradictions emerged in media access: China’s press was fully permitted, while U.S. outlets like CNN and Politico were banned, prompting emergency appeals to regain coverage. Trump repeatedly dismissed media reports as “fake news,” especially regarding alleged plans to rename the Ford Theatre, calling such coverage a national security threat. China also unveiled a sweeping initiative to welcome 100,000 young American students for study and exchange over five years, signaling a new shift in global educational influence. Internationally, oil prices surged beyond $107 due to geopolitical tensions, including Iran’s aggressive actions and U.S. sanctions, while Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure increased regional instability. Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened to force Iran to “cry uncle” through financial pressure, though analysts remain cautious about the outcomes. Iran also released a video suggesting oil prices will drop once the crisis ends, reflecting a narrative of self-solution. The meeting underscored deep divisions in U.S.-China relations, media freedom, and global power dynamics.

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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the leader of China, just wrapped up their meeting in the White House. Donald Trump once again continued to fall asleep in public during a high profile meeting like this. Xi Jinping talked about the Thucydides trap and how China is the ascending power. America is the declining power. And Donald Trump just took it. But of course, there was a big deal announced everybody because you know, Donald Trump, Mr. Cordy and Hans is a big deal maker. China has agreed to send two pandas, folks to Atlanta. The Atlanta Zoo will have two pandas, which is great, but that's the best deal that Donald Trump was able to make with Xi Jinping. Meanwhile, the glazing of Xi Jinping by Donald Trump all morning was utterly humiliating. It began with Donald Trump's first post. I met with President Xi at the plane airport yesterday, and he looks strong, vibrant, and fit better than ever. Trump says, and Madame Xi, of course, beautiful DJT. Do you want to say her full name? Madame Xi. And then Donald Trump says, I met him at the plane, the airport. Okay, we know that's where planes are. Donald Trump then says, a big day with President Xi of China, super intelligence. Xi will be a topic of discussion. That's Donald Trump's thing. We are no longer calling AI AI. We're calling it SI. We're calling it super intelligence. What a deal. I look what I did. I changed the name of something just like Gulf of Mexico, just like Lake Ontario. I just name things, and then I destroy things. That's what I do. And then I rename it. And then I rename it again. It's just one massive naming Ponzi scheme, so to range. I want to leave it exactly where it is. This is China's position. Also, our guard rail is the DOJ. I'm not changing anything about AI. Our guard rail is the DOJ, really. Your criminal defense lawyer who represented you in a case where you were found guilty of dozens of felonies who runs the DOJ. That's our guard rail. And it's just you saying, she loves me. She's my friend. And then Donald Trump again attacking the media. The Ford theater lie is just another example. How the fake news media and the Democrats conspire together to make up all stories about Donald J Trump shouldn't be allowed to happen. Our country is desperately seeking a free and fair press. There was the story yesterday by MS now that Donald Trump wanted to change the name of the Ford theater where Lincoln was assassinated to the Trump Ford theater. And he says, that's fake news. And then he wrote in a legal filing. And it seems like he was the one who wrote it last night. This is another example why it's a national security threat. And we need to ban the press. And then the judge that he appointed in his first term, Judge Kelly ruled against him. And then ordered that MS now CNN and Politico be able to get their credentials back in a report from the White House, but during the Xi Jinping meeting, they were still banned. So they had to file an emergency motion. And like minutes before the hearing, they were then allowed to go back in, but they missed the Xi Jinping meeting. But they had to file an emergency motion that Donald Trump was violating the order and still banning them. So I just want to paint this picture for you. China's press was able to be at the White House. But the US press, at least Politico MS now and CNN were viewed as the national security threat, not China's press. The US press was banned while China's press was there today. So the US press had to file an emergency motion. And right before the hearing was said to take place, then Donald Trump allowed the graciously allowed the press to show backup on being sarcastic. They had comply with the court order. By the way, when you looked at what was going down on the Xi Jinping meeting, Donald Trump had Xi walk through that absurdly grotesque Trump calls it like his presidential walk of fame, where he writes all these horrible things about Obama and other democratic presidents. And then for former president Biden, Donald Trump has a photo of an auto pen instead of actually the photo of Biden. So you can see Xi Jinping looking at it like this guy is like a crazy person. Also, Ivanka was there, not really sure why she was with the US government delegation there. Ushavans not looking too happy. Donald Trump looking very sleepy. Just so you can see when Xi Jinping was talking about Thucydides trap. Again, that's a story. The Thucydides trap from Thucydides about the Peloponnesian war, the rise of Athens, the decline of Sparta, or the rise of a great power, the decline of another power, the rise of China, the decline of the US. That's the structure of the Thucydides trap basically. And here's Donald Trump fighting the war of walkness right now here. Play this clip, we should co-exist in peace. As I have said many times, China and the United States as two major countries, then when Donald Trump walked out to greet Xi, he couldn't walk in a straight line here. Play this clip. And he keeps on talking about superintelligence, superintelligence. You can see for yourself. Let's play it. Technology and superintelligence, SI, the decisions we make in these areas today can promote peace and prosperity for decades and decades to come. Then Donald Trump talks, you see Ivanka right there while Donald Trump was sleeping and he was talking about AI, Xi Jinping then speaks and Xi talks about the Thucydides trap can be overcome. And he's saying this to Trump's face again, the Thucydides trap and what he's saying with Thucydides trap means it can be overcome if you understand your role, Trump, that the U.S. is no longer the ascending power China is. So back off, that's what he's saying here here, play this clip. Then she announces the big panda deal. I did the deal, two pandas and land a zoo. By the way, I love pandas. I'm excited to see the pandas if I visit a land. I'm not gonna lie. But I thought we'd maybe get a little more out of this than the pandas here play this clip. The giant panda has been an envoy of friendship between the Chinese and Americans. Here I have a piece of good news. In a few days, two pandas, Pingping and Fushuan will come to their new home in zoo Atlanta and meet with the American people. Oh, by the way, she announced another major initiative, 100,000 young Americans to visit China in the coming five years. And again, this is all part of China's plan, though, to show that they are now the educational center. Do you see what they're doing? That they're the educational center of the world. As Trump has attacked the education system here, China has invested so much money in their education system and attracted top professors from all over the world. And now used to be Chinese students would want to come to the United States. That's still the case. It's not totally not the case anymore. But what's being said here, pay attention is now it's going to go in the opposite direction where China's the focal point of where people are going to want to study. This is what this is really initiating in earnest right here here. Play this clip. The hope of China US relationship lies in our people and its future lies with the young. I am glad to announce an invitation for 100,000 young Americans to visit China for exchanges and study in a coming five years. And then more of Donald Trump's deranged rantings during this White House meeting with Xi. And Trump says, since you were here or since the time of my first election, we've had all of these great meetings. But this is the first time you've been in the White House. It doesn't look great. It doesn't look so different from when the last time you were here and the last time he was there was under former President Obama here. Let's play this clip. From the time of my first election in 2016, President Xi and I have forged a friendship, a truly great friendship actually built on mutual respect and the vital interests of our people. We have spent time together all over the world from Germany to Argentina, Japan to South Korea, and Beijing to Palm Beach, Florida. But remarkably, this is our first time meeting together here at the White House. And as President Xi has already seen a lot has changed since he was last here. If you've ever looked into GLP ones, you probably had the same reaction I did. Why is this so? expensive. That's what initially got me interested in collective. What I really liked when I tried it was how straightforward the entire experience was. I could actually message a real doctor when I had questions instead of dealing with some AI chatbot. And there wasn't this confusing pricing structure where you're constantly wondering what you're going to pay next month. 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And meanwhile, what was going on in other news throughout the world? Well, China's foreign ministry spokesperson was once again asked if they will continue to cooperate with Iranian airline flights into China, even though the Trump regime has threatened massive sanctions against any country that allows Iran's airplanes to land. And China's foreign ministry spokesperson says, of course, we don't believe that these unilateral sanctions apply and we disagree with them. Here, this is what he says. Play this clip. Good afternoon. Question from AFP. I know I asked about this yesterday, but the US has threatened to punish countries that allow Iranian flights to land on their territory from today. Can I ask if China will keep receiving and accommodating flights from Tehran? Thank you. China's position is consistent. We firmly oppose elicit unilateral sanctions without basis international and the lack mandate from the UN Security Council. Next question. While the US media was banned, at least Politico seen an MS now from the White House, you had footage right here of China's media right there. And also, we saw, take a look right over here, Brent crude oil surging above $107 a barrel. Look at that straight line up as the price of crude continues to surge up more than 5% today upon the news that surprise, surprise, the Trump regime's lies about productive mediation talks with Iran were just lies and Iran made it clear. Our non-negotiables have remained our non-negotiables. What we've agreed to in the MOU, those are our preconditions agreed to them or we don't want to do a deal with you. Also, Yemen's Houthis are back, well they haven't been here, but they are continuing now to strike deep within Saudi Arabia. They struck Saudi Arabia's Jizan oil region in the southern southwestern area of Saudi Arabia. They've been able to strike Yambu in the more central western area of Saudi Arabia. They were striking in the east as well. So, lots of Houthis strikes of Saudi oil refineries and they made this announcement about big strikes there. So, that's of course going to create more stress on these supply of oil. By the way, go back yesterday. I did a long video on oil supply of oil. And so, check that out. And why a diesel export ban could be problematic, which likely will be and why it needs to be well thought out. Also, Oracle stock tanking because Oracle had to send a force majeure notice this morning over its new Mexico data center, these billion dollar facility. And Oracle says we're not going to be able to meet our obligations under this facility. And the way these facilities are done too, is they're structured as like landlord tenant agreements so that these companies like Oracle don't have their debt on the books and they frame it as these kind of capital expenditures on leases. It's a whole scheme I can get into. But the short of it for now is that they're invoking force majeure meaning active God is what they're saying. And that's why they can't proceed with this data or they have to slow down the data centers over there. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Bessent has a message that he is going to make Iran cry uncle. This is what he says. This is the message. Iran will cry uncle here. Play this clip. In terms of constricting and cutting off the financial oxygen to them. And I don't know whether it's going to be a week, a month or two months, but they're going to yell uncle and the goal here can be one one of three states of the world. One, the regime turns on each other. Not impossible. Two, we get some kind of uprising for the Iranian people. They probably killed 50,000 of their own population. So very, very difficult. And then three, to get the Iranians to if they want to make a deal to stick to the deal. As President Trump said at the beginning of August, he didn't think the Iranians were ready for a deal. We gave the MOU a try on June 3rd. And then the Iranians a few weeks later began firing the on ships in the straight and being very aggressive. And this time if there is a deal, I guarantee you they're going to stick with it. What bizarre language do you wrong? We're going to make them cry uncle. One way or another, they'll give up. I mean, that's your lesson out of all of this. That's that. That's your lesson. By the way, Iran released a new AI Lego video about Besson. I'm not going to play the whole thing, but I'll play a small portion over here. Let's play it. Kiss. And then Besson says, don't worry everybody, oil prices will drop. Once we get to the other side of this, it will be great. It will drop and we will take credit for it. We are the arsonists and when it resolves, we will act like we fixed our own issues here. Play it. We had negative weight growth. We are seeing substantial wage growth here. That wage growth is going to continue going. We will get to the other side of this Iran conflict. The energy prices will drop and you will the pick your purchasing power back up. Well, there you have it. That's what went down today. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching everybody. Before you go, our book WTF America is available for pre-order now. It's the story of how we got here and how we fight our way back. To pre-order, scan the QR code or click the link in the description. Let's do this.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping held a high-profile meeting at the White House, during which Trump repeatedly fell asleep and made inappropriate public remarks, including mocking Obama and Biden with misleading photos.
  2. Xi Jinping referenced the Thucydides trap, asserting that China’s rise and the U.S.’s decline represent a potential conflict, but emphasized that such a trap can be overcome through mutual understanding and cooperation.
  3. A major diplomatic deal was announced
  4. Trump claimed to have forged a “great friendship” with Xi, yet highlighted the lack of significant progress in U.S.-China relations, claiming their meeting was the first at the White House despite prior global engagements.
  5. China’s media was allowed to cover the meeting, while U.S. media outlets like MSN, CNN, and Politico were banned, later forced to file emergency motions to regain access, highlighting a perceived bias in press treatment.
  6. Trump dismissed media reports about his alleged desire to rename the Ford Theatre as “fake news,” framing it as a national security threat and criticizing the press while promoting his own narrative.
  7. China announced a plan to welcome 100,000 young Americans for study and exchange in the next five years, signaling a shift in global educational influence from the U.S. to China.
  8. Global developments, including rising oil prices, Houthi attacks on Saudi oil facilities, and U.S. financial pressure on Iran, underscore ongoing geopolitical tensions and economic instability.

Summary:

S. leaders and falsely claiming he had forged a “great friendship” with Xi. S.

power—stating it can be overcome through mutual understanding. A major diplomatic outcome was the agreement for two pandas to be sent to the Atlanta Zoo, symbolizing a goodwill gesture. S.

outlets like CNN and Politico were banned, prompting emergency appeals to regain coverage. Trump repeatedly dismissed media reports as “fake news,” especially regarding alleged plans to rename the Ford Theatre, calling such coverage a national security threat. China also unveiled a sweeping initiative to welcome 100,000 young American students for study and exchange over five years, signaling a new shift in global educational influence.

S. sanctions, while Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure increased regional instability. Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened to force Iran to “cry uncle” through financial pressure, though analysts remain cautious about the outcomes.

Iran also released a video suggesting oil prices will drop once the crisis ends, reflecting a narrative of self-solution. -China relations, media freedom, and global power dynamics.

FAQs

China agreed to send two giant pandas, Pingping and Fushuan, to the Atlanta Zoo, marking a symbolic gesture of diplomatic goodwill.

Xi mentioned the 'Thucydides trap,' a historical theory suggesting that rising powers often lead to conflict with declining powers, and noted that China is now an ascending power while the U.S. is in decline.

No, major U.S. news outlets like MSN, CNN, and Politico were banned from covering the event, while China's media was allowed to attend, raising concerns about media freedom.

Trump claimed they had 'forged a great friendship' and emphasized that this was their first meeting at the White House, despite having met Xi previously during past visits.

Trump promoted the idea of 'superintelligence' (SI) and claimed that decisions in AI could bring peace and prosperity, although he did not engage meaningfully with Xi's counterpoints.

China announced an initiative to welcome 100,000 young Americans to visit and study in China over the next five years, signaling a shift in educational diplomacy.

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