Well, not in so many words, Trump admitted. “He’s not going to respond too much. He’s a pretty cool guy. He’s not going to say that’s a good point.”
One popular Maga YouTuber, Benny Johnson, had valiantly attempted to project optimism before Trump came home empty-handed.
“Trump is winning BIG Today,” he initially claimed on X. “China trip is going better than anyone could have imagined. China helping bring Iran War to an end. Buying American oil. Massive trade deals. Stocks roaring.”
Xi didn’t grant the US any greater hoped-for access to rare earth minerals, either, and Boeing’s share price dropped four per cent when it turned out China was only buying 200 out of 500 expected aircraft – and possibly not even that many. The tight-lipped Chinese foreign ministry wouldn’t say.
Trump didn’t believe Biden when he said the same about Hunter, describing his presence in China as “a horrible thing” and clamouring for an investigation, but sure, let’s give Eric the benefit of the doubt.
“You want to see farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out of the market,” he chided Hannity.
He went on to sound like a raging liberal about the presence of Chinese students in the US: “I frankly think it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture.”
*Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting*
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TemporarySun314 on
Maga love being fooled. So much they even fool themselves. Otherwise nobody could think that trump would be even a remotely competently politician, let alone the savior and genius maga tries to see him as.
ArdaBerkBurak on
If MAGA could actually notice things, they wouldn’t have voted for Trump.
P1xelHunter78 on
China and Russia are dog walking us. This is a very big problem
Troll_in_the_Knoll on
Fun Fact: , President Obama was personally greeted at the airport by Xi Jinpin during his visit to Beijing in 2009. Trump wasn’t.
Lonely_Noyaaa on
Xi didn’t agree to anything beyond generalities. “Strait must remain open” is not a promise to do anything about it and Trump is spinning a diplomatic handshake as a geopolitical victory. The only person who got played is the guy who thinks a photo op is a treaty.
Promethia on
At this point, MAGA being fooled is a feature, not a bug.
Reasonable_Ask_2869 on
I think we need to move past this idea that MAGA has been fooled. They don’t stand for anything BUT Trump. That’s the whole deal. If he likes it, they like it. If he doesn’t like it, they don’t either. Acting like they just haven’t figured it out yet isn’t a strategy and definitely paints them as having more morals than they actually do.
Wonderful_Style7972 on
Spoiler: MAGA hasn’t noticed they got fooled by Trump.
sxyaustincpl on
They’ve been fooled since 2016, they’re just too stupid to realize it
Is there a bigger scarlet letter these days, to easily identify the dumbest members of society, than a red hat??
GreenDavidA on
You’re assuming Trump cares.
Caraes_Naur on
The number of times Trump has been fooled is something mathematicians call *an infinity*.
ToNoMoCo on
Trump was punked, not just fooled.
victorbarst on
If nothing else the entire trump era is really an attestation to just how powerful the right wing propaganda machine is
Wayofchinchilla on
You’re Expecting too much if you would think Maga would understand anything about another country or their culture. The most traveling theses swamp dwellers do is going to the dollar store to get groceries.
MrMic on
Evergreen headline
Chpgmr on
Fooled? He gets fooled so often that I dont think much of it can be considered fooled anymore. He just rather be given special treatment and receive gifts than help the US in any meaningful way.
Pickle_ninja on
Fool me twice… fool can’t get fooled again.
PWL51 on
That’s assuming MAGA nuts have grey matter
Hufflepuffpassmethej on
Guys, they notice.
THEY JUST DONT CARE
For the vast majority of these people, if it pisses liberals off, they enjoy it
They’re having the fucking time of their lives right now knowing that liberals, dems, leftists, and any decent person in this country are losing their fucking mines at what is happening every single day
Conservatives are shooting themselves in the face, we say “please stop, you’re about to shoot yourself in the face” and they say “well it sure looks like it’s pissing you off! I’m pulling the trigger!”
Life-Quantity-637 on
It’s cope. The US has fallen. People can’t get their heads around it.
mangotail on
They never will lol I used to think that maybe rising gas and food prices would change their minds, but they all reason it out as short-term pain for the greater good and continue to support Trump backed candidates.
availablelol on
Maga too busy blaming Biden
LHGray87 on
Xi Jinping trolled and owned Donnie’s child-raping ass from the very beginning, including the Thucydides Trap remark, and did not let up until he left.
Jinping didn’t meet him at the airport. Instead he had him cheered on by a bunch of underage schoolgirls as a not-so-subtle dig at his pedophiliac ways.
The clown tried his stupid power-handshake but Xi was ready, pulling the dipshit’s hand right into Xi’s space and keeping his hand dominantly on top of the idiot’s hand.
Xi had a cushion placed in dipshit’s chair to make fun of his fake height.
Xi excused himself for a few moments, leaving his notebook out just so that all the cameras could catch the moron sneaking a peek at Xi’s notes. (Most assuredly written in Chinese.)
Xi sent the massive loser home with the huge gift of: a packet of rose seeds. Knowing full well that the rapist had previously destroyed and paved over the White House Rose Garden.
“The transaction is over. Be gone from me now. Be gone from me, you soy boy beta cuck. BE GONE!”
Big-Rule5269 on
China had very little if any censoring of their Internet, with critics of Trump and what he’s done to the US being allowed to post all over the Internet during his visit. Things like, “you’re welcome to visit China and learn from us”, or The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength.” Also, ” The U.S. Economy is in bad shape. Trump has been blustering Iran for so long, yet hasn’t bought them a real victory. America has lost its swagger. They’re nothing but a paper tiger.”
China was also supposed to order 500 Boeing 737 Max planes, but committed to only 300 if that.
pbfarmr on
Trump has [always] been [a] fool~~ed~~ …
FTFY
yamers on
MAGA loves to be scammed though.
SeniorFlyingMango on
MAGA knows they’ve been fooled but if they admit it they’d be thrown out
AcanthisittaNo6653 on
MAGA is a too busy trying to steal the next election to notice, one red state at a time.
TiedyedDwarf on
Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
Randy_Watson on
MAGA would be so mad if they could read
AINonsense on
> Pedo Piggy has been ~~fooled~~ played
FTFY
Lookingfor68 on
Xi totally rolled Trump this week. He was humiliated multiple times, in subtle ways, that Trump is too dumb to see. For example, gifting Trump rose seeds is just one example. Trump is so fucking incompetent he didn’t even see the humiliation.
DunAnOir on
That’s because they’re fucking idiots, just like him.
superliver1211 on
Trumpstein could sit in their lap and magats would wonder where the smell of shit is coming from
Gentleman_Villain on
Yet?
They won’t ever. That’s the cult part. IT’s everyone else we need to get convinced.
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China’s president Xi Jinping appears to have been studying [King Charles’s royal playbook when dealing with Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/the-pictures-that-show-king-charles-knows-how-to-tame-trump-4383445?srsltid=AfmBOoqW69h-pISYphixnTPS9U8CFCse6294JTyiFa7UaDVxo9UcLyBq&ico=in-line_link).
Step one: bedazzle the US President with pomp and circumstance and a “rare” visit somewhere special. In Britain’s case, this was Windsor Castle. [In China,](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-fatal-flaw-about-exposed-world-stage-4412430?srsltid=AfmBOorXd_j1sk1Ai7MXBqmgaq-Mt6rLSvtKlyev4wo_VjITX0dYXwNK&ico=in-line_link) it was Zhongnanhai – the secretive compound for the Chinese leadership set in ancient imperial gardens.
Step two: [follow the King’s example in Washington](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-dark-new-age-kings-terrible-warning-britain-4371839?srsltid=AfmBOooso6PJJJrQgaCkqrz4roY863R8YxTpfdqUDCISyUUN-6sNAY7g&ico=in-line_link) last month. Fob off the Great Narcissist with warm words about friendship between their two great nations before shafting him with such a subtle – [but profoundly barbed](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trump-humiliated-monarchy-king-charles-speech-4385078?srsltid=AfmBOopXQJD81JFxXj-0D_-B5XA-41hA4EQxQfdGKXk27kQrwQprt8gQ&ico=in-line_link) – message that Trump is either obliged to pretend he hasn’t heard it, or has genuinely failed to grasp its import.
[Xi warned Trump in Beijing ](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-handed-china-win-shows-uk-do-next-4358947?srsltid=AfmBOorqQ-zSFiMp0PmR56hWbsIEf3hlUsHaKlxcaP_nsA9udClLfTS2&ico=in-line_link)to stay away from “clashes and conflicts” over Taiwan’s status and reinforced this point by urging him to avoid the “Thucydides Trap” – the theory that war breaks out when a rising power challenges a declining one. It took a while for the penny to drop that Xi thought America was in decline.
This led to some delusional spinning on Truth Social later that [the Chinese leader was really harking back](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/why-trumps-china-deal-wont-solve-mess-created-4011989?srsltid=AfmBOoq1kNvXLRgUCrSychV4awdaZDwKVt7fmdMIck0jOeSPuw-dXRV1&ico=in-line_link) to the US under Joe Biden. “When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe,” Trump claimed.
Trump’s usual Maga cheerleaders were [so perplexed by the China summit ](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-fatal-flaw-about-exposed-world-stage-4412430?srsltid=AfmBOorsK5fa2Mu_5wMfJPW6oDoeWd5_5xn38ReaUxM5De7kP0TNS00s&ico=in-line_link)that they mostly ignored it. Sean Hannity of Fox New*s* didn’t have that luxury, having travelled with Trump to Beijing. In an interview, he tried to press Trump on whether Xi had agreed [Iran cannot have nuclear weapons](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/nuclear-threat-to-world-posed-by-war-torn-iran-4266626?srsltid=AfmBOor2UQWUjrBTgjJOa6m0SHb62hT_2vRtWKrL64h0sGgCQ81RtUF8&ico=in-line_link), as Trump had claimed.
Well, not in so many words, Trump admitted. “He’s not going to respond too much. He’s a pretty cool guy. He’s not going to say that’s a good point.”
One popular Maga YouTuber, Benny Johnson, had valiantly attempted to project optimism before Trump came home empty-handed.
“Trump is winning BIG Today,” he initially claimed on X. “China trip is going better than anyone could have imagined. China helping bring Iran War to an end. Buying American oil. Massive trade deals. Stocks roaring.”
He later sounded more sober, saying Trump “thinks” President Xi will help the US reopen [the Strait of Hormuz](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-control-gulf-risks-terrifying-scenario-warships-iran-4297507?srsltid=AfmBOooXRJ5Q-fvb7KIhnW2OrxHYcg4xR4TsaRD2yvqb8eFyfbkxNFlw&ico=in-line_link).
In fact, Xi had [said nothing about reopening the Strait](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trump-breaking-point-answer-may-fresh-violence-4412428?ico=in-line_link). Returning home on Air Force One, Trump admitted he hadn’t even asked for China’s help. “I don’t need favours,” he said. “I think automatically he’d like to see it opened up.”
Xi didn’t grant the US any greater hoped-for access to rare earth minerals, either, and Boeing’s share price dropped four per cent when it turned out China was only buying 200 out of 500 expected aircraft – and possibly not even that many. The tight-lipped Chinese foreign ministry wouldn’t say.
Once again, Maga can’t cope with the truth. There were no shouts or murmurs about the presence of middle son Eric Trump on the trip, even though Trump went ballistic over [Joe Biden taking his son Hunter ](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/biden-pardon-no-equality-law-america-3410065?ico=in-line_link)to Beijing in 2013 as vice-president.
[Eric Trump’s](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/person-trump-trust-succeed-too-smart-do-it-4388201?srsltid=AfmBOoqpQyNqsb33KFeWFplZ2BXITuLSlZ5by5nKQ9t4TpjLUXRjZqwP&ico=in-line_link) net worth has risen tenfold to $400m since his father was re-elected, according to *Forbes*, but he was just in China in a “personal capacity”, according to the Trump Organization, which he represents.
Trump didn’t believe Biden when he said the same about Hunter, describing his presence in China as “a horrible thing” and clamouring for an investigation, but sure, let’s give Eric the benefit of the doubt.
When Hannity tried to press the President to repeat his previously extensive criticisms of China, he demurred. Trump U-turned, for instance, [on whether China](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/why-trumps-china-deal-wont-solve-mess-created-4011989?srsltid=AfmBOopgxrk7IT7uxiaBe4NhgtsgxWUQjBIEGXKhmAdhbrDu3uBdCBJy&ico=in-line_link) should be buying up tracts of land from farmers in the US, including near military installations – having railed against this on the 2024 campaign trail.
“You want to see farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out of the market,” he chided Hannity.
He went on to sound like a raging liberal about the presence of Chinese students in the US: “I frankly think it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture.”
Back [in the US, Trump faces the reality of rising inflation](https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/britain-braced-trumpflation-what-economists-warning-4350967?ico=in-line_link), now at 3.8 per cent, fuel prices upwards of $4.50 a gallon and deepening hostility to his handling of the economy – 70 per cent disapprove and only 30 approve, according to the latest CNN [poll](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28114951-cnn-poll-conducted-by-ssrs-affordability/).
It won’t help that Trump said before leaving for China “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation” when considering [the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/five-fatal-flaws-trumps-latest-plan-end-war-4403188?ico=in-line_link). “Not even a little bit,” he explained.
Never mind though. The big conclusion he drew from his visit, as posted on Truth Social from Air Force One was: “[China has a Ballroom](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/pictures-show-trumps-vanity-ballroom-may-never-built-4362420?srsltid=AfmBOor2OjlJB1jqjiofyYEmsNyAwJ7ozD0h4kr8UpCno_1m3kV-xmeL&ico=in-line_link), and so should the U.S.A.!”
*Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting*
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Maga love being fooled. So much they even fool themselves. Otherwise nobody could think that trump would be even a remotely competently politician, let alone the savior and genius maga tries to see him as.
If MAGA could actually notice things, they wouldn’t have voted for Trump.
China and Russia are dog walking us. This is a very big problem
Fun Fact: , President Obama was personally greeted at the airport by Xi Jinpin during his visit to Beijing in 2009. Trump wasn’t.
Xi didn’t agree to anything beyond generalities. “Strait must remain open” is not a promise to do anything about it and Trump is spinning a diplomatic handshake as a geopolitical victory. The only person who got played is the guy who thinks a photo op is a treaty.
At this point, MAGA being fooled is a feature, not a bug.
I think we need to move past this idea that MAGA has been fooled. They don’t stand for anything BUT Trump. That’s the whole deal. If he likes it, they like it. If he doesn’t like it, they don’t either. Acting like they just haven’t figured it out yet isn’t a strategy and definitely paints them as having more morals than they actually do.
Spoiler: MAGA hasn’t noticed they got fooled by Trump.
They’ve been fooled since 2016, they’re just too stupid to realize it
Is there a bigger scarlet letter these days, to easily identify the dumbest members of society, than a red hat??
You’re assuming Trump cares.
The number of times Trump has been fooled is something mathematicians call *an infinity*.
Trump was punked, not just fooled.
If nothing else the entire trump era is really an attestation to just how powerful the right wing propaganda machine is
You’re Expecting too much if you would think Maga would understand anything about another country or their culture. The most traveling theses swamp dwellers do is going to the dollar store to get groceries.
Evergreen headline
Fooled? He gets fooled so often that I dont think much of it can be considered fooled anymore. He just rather be given special treatment and receive gifts than help the US in any meaningful way.
Fool me twice… fool can’t get fooled again.
That’s assuming MAGA nuts have grey matter
Guys, they notice.
THEY JUST DONT CARE
For the vast majority of these people, if it pisses liberals off, they enjoy it
They’re having the fucking time of their lives right now knowing that liberals, dems, leftists, and any decent person in this country are losing their fucking mines at what is happening every single day
Conservatives are shooting themselves in the face, we say “please stop, you’re about to shoot yourself in the face” and they say “well it sure looks like it’s pissing you off! I’m pulling the trigger!”
It’s cope. The US has fallen. People can’t get their heads around it.
They never will lol I used to think that maybe rising gas and food prices would change their minds, but they all reason it out as short-term pain for the greater good and continue to support Trump backed candidates.
Maga too busy blaming Biden
Xi Jinping trolled and owned Donnie’s child-raping ass from the very beginning, including the Thucydides Trap remark, and did not let up until he left.
Jinping didn’t meet him at the airport. Instead he had him cheered on by a bunch of underage schoolgirls as a not-so-subtle dig at his pedophiliac ways.
The clown tried his stupid power-handshake but Xi was ready, pulling the dipshit’s hand right into Xi’s space and keeping his hand dominantly on top of the idiot’s hand.
Xi had a cushion placed in dipshit’s chair to make fun of his fake height.
Xi excused himself for a few moments, leaving his notebook out just so that all the cameras could catch the moron sneaking a peek at Xi’s notes. (Most assuredly written in Chinese.)
Xi sent the massive loser home with the huge gift of: a packet of rose seeds. Knowing full well that the rapist had previously destroyed and paved over the White House Rose Garden.
“The transaction is over. Be gone from me now. Be gone from me, you soy boy beta cuck. BE GONE!”
China had very little if any censoring of their Internet, with critics of Trump and what he’s done to the US being allowed to post all over the Internet during his visit. Things like, “you’re welcome to visit China and learn from us”, or The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength.” Also, ” The U.S. Economy is in bad shape. Trump has been blustering Iran for so long, yet hasn’t bought them a real victory. America has lost its swagger. They’re nothing but a paper tiger.”
China was also supposed to order 500 Boeing 737 Max planes, but committed to only 300 if that.
Trump has [always] been [a] fool~~ed~~ …
FTFY
MAGA loves to be scammed though.
MAGA knows they’ve been fooled but if they admit it they’d be thrown out
MAGA is a too busy trying to steal the next election to notice, one red state at a time.
Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?
MAGA would be so mad if they could read
> Pedo Piggy has been ~~fooled~~ played
FTFY
Xi totally rolled Trump this week. He was humiliated multiple times, in subtle ways, that Trump is too dumb to see. For example, gifting Trump rose seeds is just one example. Trump is so fucking incompetent he didn’t even see the humiliation.
That’s because they’re fucking idiots, just like him.
Trumpstein could sit in their lap and magats would wonder where the smell of shit is coming from
Yet?
They won’t ever. That’s the cult part. IT’s everyone else we need to get convinced.