Transcript of Trump Panics as Xi Refuses to Greet Him New

Donald Trump is panicking and he is livid as he arrived in China and Xi Jinping was not there to greet him when Air Force One landed. Not only that, Xi Jinping did not send any top Chinese government officials to greet Donald Trump. Instead, Xi Jinping sent lower-level ceremonial people from the government, and then he also sent a group of Chinese schoolchildren to wave in Donald Trump's face, mostly Chinese 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 the steps of Air Force One. 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 First one, let's play it.

Now let me show you an angle of these school children right here that Xi Jinping sent to wave. Again, mostly Chinese flags. Flags in Donald Trump's face. This is what Donald Trump was greeted with— Chinese schoolchildren, 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. 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's Elon Musk right there. I do believe just behind there. Yes, right in front of the Ambassador David Perdue. So I'm going to try to pick out a few others. Yeah, Eric Trump and Lara Trump, we mentioned that a moment ago.

So tomorrow is the bilat, and then he is going to tour some important places. And then on Friday before they leave is the tea, and then there is the lunch. These are participants. These kids apparently include 10 American expatriate children that were selected by Chinese organizers to make the president feel warmness of home. You can see the beast is leaving now.

As former Ambassador Luis Moreno explains, no Xi, no foreign minister, just bells and whistles and lower-ranking folks. As someone who has done more than a few POTUS visits abroad, that doesn't happen unless someone— Xi Jinping— is sending a message to Donald Trump. I mean, you had David Perdue 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 silent 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 Huang of NVIDIA was not invited to the incredible gathering, but he's gonna 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, uh, 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. You can see some of these other CEOs that were there. 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 quo. That's my opinion. You had MAGA Republican Congress member James Comer though, and all the MAGA sycophants 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, and I can't think of a better person to lead the negotiations than President Trump. China has already received the message that the United States is serious with all the tariffs that have been slapped on China. And if I were President Xi, I would worry if this is an unsuccessful summit after 2 days, that China could be faced with even more tariffs from the United States.

Well, I think that's a great point.

But the American people definitely disagree with that. Donald Trump's approval at all-time lows. Never have we had a president this weak 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 it this morning, uh, regarding Donald Trump's approval. Let's play this clip. 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 handling of inflation. On a 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 poll, Johnny Berman, it's many polls.

Just take a look here.

President's net approval on inflation, the 5 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 all, 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 5 worst polls ever.

5 worst polls ever.

Joe Biden's not in there.

Joe Biden.

Jimmy Carter's not in there.

Jimmy Carter's not in there.

All Donald Trump.

All Donald Trump. The 5 worst ever belong to This gentleman on this side of the screen.

And by the way, here's how they're referring to it, or here's how they're discussing it on Canadian TV right now about how weak it looks when Donald Trump has been arriving, uh, to China. Let's play this clip.

I imagine though that there are people in China who are wondering how the US, who should have had every advantage in this war that it started, is getting bogged down by a much lesser power.

That is an American tradition, I hate to tell you.

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Look, even MAGA Mike Johnson, Republican Speaker of the House, gave an interview with state regime media, which calls itself Fox, this morning, acknowledging just how bad things are. Let's play this clip.

Add up to not great news today when it comes to inflation, up at 3.8%, highest 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. It can't be the great surprise, but certainly not good news.

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, the 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 Strait of Hormuz 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, uh, that y'all are 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 say you, MAGA Mike Johnson? Here, play this clip.

The Trump administration has repeatedly argued in court that the ballroom itself is is part of the security apparatus.

So should the final bill explicitly rule out funding for the ballroom itself?

I mean, do you think that would smooth over some of what you say is this false narrative that's developing?

Look, 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 abundantly clear. He is— 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. Yes, sir.

Then you had other Trump sycophants this morning trying to distract from Donald Trump's horrible trip to China. Like you have MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Ogles. He says, my little ones, my kitties, 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, play this, guys. Go ahead, play this clip. Let's play it.

So you— they just came over to you and said, Congressman, give me your phone.

Yes, ma'am. And so I turned it over. I spent the last 2 years working with the DOJ clearing my name. It's taken 2 years. And quite frankly, And frankly, the impact that has on your family. My little one still has nightmares, afraid that his dad's going to be taken away by big bad Biden and his Department 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, we had an FEC violation, which is a civil issue, which we fixed, by the way. And they tried to turn it into a criminal case. But I had gone after Jack Smith. I had issued articles of impeachment against a Harris. And this was 2 weeks later.

You know, also while Donald Trump taking this, uh, trip to China, we got some more, uh, horrible economic news here in the United States. Month over month, US 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 Kobayashi Letter explains, all of that data is very clear. Consumers Americans are about to face another wave of serious pressures on spending power. So April PPI inflation surged 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 an interest rate hike now continue to spike, continue to rise. Not rate cut decreases, interest rate— interest rates increasing. Now, you may be saying, Ben, I'm a little confused. Didn't you give an inflation report yesterday where 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, uh, you know, how they're 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 economist forecasters They all predicted that PPI was going to be significantly less than it came in at, you know, which is, 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, the top people on 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, uh, 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 slope-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, uh, 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 Araghchi 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 US intelligence now assesses Iran has restored operational access to 30 of the 33 missile sites it maintains along the Strait 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, uh, FPV drones, all of their Shahed drones, their ballistic missile capabilities are back and ready. And so, you know, you've never had somebody, you know, uh, never had a US president arriving this week So pathetic. And then Donald Trump posted again when he was on Air Force One.

He goes, many others will be joining my journey to the great country of China. Well, 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 promised 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, we'll just show you, you can— well, we'll roll out the school children for you, Donald. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching. You may think you're subscribed, but you might actually be subscribed, so hit subscribe. Help us get to 7 million subscribers. Want to stay plugged in?

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