Donald Trump is panicking and he is
live it as he arrived in China, and Xi Jinping was not there to
“greet him when Air Force won landed. Not only that,”
Xi Jinping did not send any top Chinese government officials to greet Donald Trump. Instead, Xi Jinping sent low-relevel ceremonial people from the government, and then he also sent a group of Chinese school children to wave in Donald Trump's face, mostly Chinese flags, some American flags. This was a greeting that showed that Xi Jinping
did not care that the president of the United States was arriving for a purported state visit. Now, Donald Trump was very nervous walking down these steps of Air Force won. He was struggling step-by-step.
“He was holding on for dear life not to fall down the steps”
Let me show you what went down. This clip is going viral right now. As Donald Trump struggles to get down the stairs of Air Force won, let's play it. [Music] Now, let me show you an angle of the school children right here that Xi Jinping sent to wave again, mostly Chinese flags
in Donald Trump's face. This is what Donald Trump was greeted with Chinese school children, not Xi Jinping. Here, play this clip. Show you more b-roll of Donald Trump struggling down those stairs. Again, you can see him holding on to the handle for dear life right here. I just
find it so interesting that he would always mock former president Biden
for this exact thing. And Donald Trump just looks so much worse. So weak, so frail, so pathetic looking, no Xi Jinping, no top level foreign minister there. Here's how state regime media, which calls itself Fox, tried to spin this and then they admit, oh, it looks like Elon Musk is there. Oh, who else is there? This is how state regime tried to spin it here. Play this clip.
“You know, the president comes in, I think that Xi Elon Musk right there. I do believe”
just behind there. Yes, right in front of the ambassador, David Purdue. So when try to pick out a few others that Eric Trump and Laura Trump, we mentioned that a moment ago. So tomorrow's the bilat and then he is going to tour some important places and then on Friday before they leave his the tea and then there is the the lunch. These are participants. These kids apparently include 10 American X Patriot Children that were selected by Chinese organizers
to make the president feel warmness of how you can see the beast is leaving. Now, as former ambassador Luis Marino explains, no Xi, no foreign minister, just bells and whistles and lower ranking folks, as someone who has done more than a few potis visits abroad, that doesn't happen unless someone, Xi Jinping, is sending a message to Donald Trump. I mean, you had David Purdue there, which Donald Trump's ambassador to China over there.
You had China's ambassador to Washington there. You had a vice minister there, but none of the top level people were there. And this is what Donald Trump posted as he was arriving in China. And then he's gone radio silence since he landed. He just wanted everybody to know as he was on the plane heading to China that CNBC incorrectly reported that the Great Jensen Wang of
Nvidia was not invited to the incredible gathering, but he's going to be there with all of these
CEOs. Now, Donald Trump is so paranoid, he has such imposter syndrome. He knows that he is so weak and frail when negotiating with Xi Jinping that Donald Trump is surrounding himself and he's so insecure that he's surrounding himself with all of these top-level CEOs. He thinks that's going to make him look strong, but it's making him look so utterly weak and pathetic. I mean,
You can see Elon Musk in the background.
Also, you had Eric Trump and Lara Trump there. Now, Eric Trump runs the Trump family businesses right now.
“I'm sure going there to scoop up some more business opportunities for the Trump family.”
In my opinion, continuing to use the office for quid pro quotes. That's my opinion. You had Maggie Republican Congress member James Comer, though, and all the magasick offense this morning, you know, saying, I can't think of any better person to be leading these negotiations right now than Donald Trump. Play this clip. There's so much on the table that I can't think of a better person to lead the negotiations in President Trump. China has already received a message that
the United States is serious with all the tariffs that have been slapped on China. And if I were president Z, I would worry. This is an unsuccessful summit after two days that China could be faced with even more tariffs from the United States. No, I can get to grade points. But the American people definitely disagree with that. Donald Trump's approval at all time,
lows never have we had a president this week. This unpopular doing a trip abroad. I mean,
“Donald Trump's less popular than Nixon at the time that Nixon resigned. Here's how Harry”
Enten on CNN described at this morning regarding Donald Trump's approval. Let's play this clip. We've been talking about inflation. We've been talking about the president's approval on it, which is not good. Our new poll shows that people are very unhappy with the economy, with inflation, with this hand leg in inflation on an historical perspective, though. How much don't they like how he's handling inflation? These are the ugliest numbers I have ever seen on
inflation. And it's not just one ball Johnny Burman. It's many polls. Just take a look here. Presidents that approval on inflation. The five worst polls ever for any president, they all belong to Donald John Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. The CNN poll one of them 48 48 points below water on the net approval rating. So what we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever in multiple polls now belong to the president of the United States. Donald
Trump. It is a record simply put you do not want to have the five worst polls ever. Five worst polls ever. Joe Biden's not in there. Joe Biden's not in there. Jimmy Carter's not in all Donald Trump. All Donald Trump. The five worst ever belong to this gentleman on this side of the screen. By the way, here's how they're referring to it. Here's how they're discussing it on Canadian TV right now about how weak it looks when Donald Trump has been arriving to China. Let's play this clip.
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the Housegave an interview with state regime media, which calls itself Fox this morning, acknowledging just how bad things are. Let's play this clip. That up to not great news today when it comes to inflation up at 3.8% high since 2023. So for a 40% spike in terms of food prices, grocery prices, core inflation, those numbers are up.
Mostly has to do with energy.
Not good news and real families are feeling that and we're keenly aware of it very sensitive
“to it here in Congress. We put together all the pro-growth policies in the big beautiful”
bill that working families tax cuts to allow the U.S. economy to take off like a rocket. And we were doing that prior to the conflict in Iran. So now we've got to settle that out. The state of our moves is the big one. Then he was asked questions later during a press conference this morning about Donald Trump's ballroom. Should the final bill that Yollard talking about,
you know, this government funding bill, should it explicitly rule out $1 billion to Donald
Trump's ballroom? Doesn't seem like the American people are into ballrooms right now. What's say you magma Mike Johnson here play this clip? Again, I don't have the pen in the Senate. They're writing the bill. We'll see what we get.
“But I think the president has been abundant. He is excited about building a ballroom with”
private funding, not taxpayer funding. But the secret service says that as we enhance the White House grounds and the modernization there, that obviously we have to think differently about security. We live in a very dangerous time and there are new and increasing threats that we have
never faced before. And so Congress has a role in funding that and we'll have to see how it all works out.
Because then you had other Trump sick events this morning trying to distract from Donald Trump's horrible trip to China. Like you have magma Republican Congress member Andy Ogles. He says my little ones, my kiddies, they have nightmares. They're afraid that their daddy is going to be taken away by big, bad Biden. Like it's a direct quote here. Like your blood play this guy's gonna play this clip. Let's play us. So you, they just came over to you and said,
Congressman, give me your phone. Yes, man. And so I turned it over. I spent the last two years working with the DOJ clearing my name. It's taken two years. And quite frankly the impact that has on your family. My little one still has nightmares are afraid that his dad's going to be
taken away by big, bad Biden and his apartment of justice. That should never happen again.
What was the answer to coming over to you in the middle of your private family time and demanding your phone? Why did they do that? Well, you know, had an FEC violation which is a civil issue which we fixed by the way. And they tried to determine it, it turned it into your criminal case. But I had gone after Jack Smith. I had issued articles of a impeachment against Kamala Harris. And this was two weeks later. You know, also, while Donald Trump taking this trip
to China, we got some more horrible economic news here in the United States, month over month U.S. PPI, the producer price index inflation. PPI inflation rose 1.5% in April, marking the biggest monthly jump in inflation since March of 2022. As the Kobiasi letter explains, all of that data is very clear. Consumers are about to face another wave of serious pressures on spending power. So, April, PPI inflation surge to 6% well above the expectations of
4.9% and the highest level since January 2023. Core PPI inflation rose to 5.2% above the expectations of 4.3% both CPI and PPI inflation are now officially at 3-year highs. odds of a interest rate hike now continue to spike continue to rise. Not rate cut decreases interest rates increase. Now, you may be saying, Ben, I'm a little confused. Didn't you give an inflation report yesterday? Were you said inflation rose to 3.8%. Yeah. That was the consumer price index. That was
consumer inflation. So, how we're all feeling the inflation. That was 3.8% year over year. PPI is the producer price index. Basically, how the manufacturers, how the producers are feeling their experiencing inflation. That then gets passed on to consumers. So, when the PPI
“starts to increase, the consumer price index often follows, that's why both of these indicators”
taken together are really bad. It should also be noted that all of the 48 Bloomberg economists, forecasters, they all predicted that PPI was going to be significantly less than it came in at, you know, which is not good at all. Another important data point is Brett Bruin points out about this China trip. Let me go back to that for a moment. There was not a single China expert with Donald Trump on Air Force One as Brett Bruin explains, "Potus would normally have at least
One national security council, one state department official, the top Chinese...
Chinese affairs would be surrounding him, not Eric Trump, not just corporate CEOs who are
“interested in the bottom line for themselves and it underlines how utterly unprepared Donald”
Trump is for his meeting with Xi Jinping to which Donald Trump's communication director flipping out this morning and saying, you have no idea what you're talking about. You slow-brained, mouth-breathing moron, stop calling yourself an expert in anything aside from sucking anyone that hires you, not many should get an immediate refund and payment for wasting their time. That's the official statement out of Trump's White House, from the communications director I might
“add." And then finally, as Donald Trump takes this disastrous trip to China, we learned last week”
of course about Iran's trip to China, Iran Foreign Minister Iraq, she getting a hero's welcome in China much different than what we're seeing from Donald Trump so far. And what we're learning now as well, you know, as Donald Trump lands in China, we're learning from New York Times, classified military intelligence assessments from early this month, show that Iran has regained access to most of its missile sites, most of its missile launchers, and most of its underground
“facilities, including U.S. intelligence now assesses Iran has restored operational access”
to 30 of the 33 missile sites. It maintains along the straight of Hormuz and about 90% of Iran's underground missile sites are partially or fully operational. They pretty much have all of their drones, all of their FPV drones, all of their Shahid drones, their ballistic missile capabilities are
back and ready. And so, you know, you've never had somebody, you know, never had a U.S. President
arriving this week. So, pathetic. And then Donald Trump posted again when he was an air force one, he goes, uh, many others will be joining my journey to the great country of China, while I will be asking Xi Jinping a leader of extraordinary distinction to open up China so that these brilliant people can work their magic and help bring the people's republic to an even higher level. In fact, I promise that we can work together, which will be in a matter of hours. I will make that
very first request. Doesn't it seem like he's showing up there begging Xi Jinping and Xi Jinping's like, well, just show you, well, we're all out to school children for you, Donald.
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