How Trump befriended and owned Xi

Peace through strength. Trump’s the strength.

President Trump’s state dinner for Red China’s dictator was a masterpiece of peace through strength. He’s the strength.

Ahead of the fete, Laura Loomer panned the very idea of the visit, tweeting, “China stole the election from President Trump. So can someone please explain to me why China hasn’t been held accountable for this, and why their Communist dictator is being treated like a king on US soil today? “As always, there is ZERO accountability. Always a win for our enemies.”

I cannot disagree with her about the election and covid, which she also mentioned, but accountability is the language of Democrats and RINOs—the very people who enabled the steal of our election and the shuttering of our economy.

But Trump does not have time for vengeance. He has a war with Red China to win and lo and behold, he has. He has shown Red China’s military equipment works about as well as communism does.

Trump by force and by diplomacy has Red China by the chokepoints: Panama Canal, Strait of Malacca (Indonesian agreement), Strait of Gibraltar (Moroccan agreement) and of courser Greenland. The Danish politicians Xi bought are now as worthless to him as they are to everyone else.

The state dinner allowed Chairman Xi to save face. The communist press in his country churned out propaganda galore while the communist press in our country sucked its thumb and gazed at its navel muttering, but the judge said CNN can go wherever it wants in the White House. The press in our country said their job was so important to the country that the TV channels refused to air the speeches by Xi and Trump.

What Trump bonded with Xi and politely showed him the American Eagle still rules the skies because the Chinese dragon went extinct thousands of years ago. To mix metaphors and paraphrase Mao, Red China is a paper tiger.

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Trump's Art of the Deal

Trump's Strategy goes full speed ahead

In poker, there’s a moment the table goes quiet because everyone knows someone just overplayed their hand. Five days ago, every talking head in Washington was certain that someone was Donald Trump.

The Islamabad talks had collapsed. Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, flew home and delivered his toughest line yet: “If you fight, we will fight.” Pundits nodded gravely.

A Kings College London analyst declared Trump’s strategy “unrealistic” and predicted the president would “have to concede.” Joe Rogan — who endorsed Trump in 2024 — called the whole situation “terrifying” and wondered aloud how we got here.

Across the Atlantic, Macron and Starmer hastily organized a 40-nation summit to plan their own maritime initiative for the Strait of Hormuz, conspicuously without the United States. The world was bracing for a long, ugly stalemate.

Then, on Monday morning, the U.S. Navy began its blockade.

Ten thousand service members. Over a hundred aircraft. More than a dozen warships parked on Iran’s doorstep. Every port watched, every ship tracked. CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper put it simply: “No ships have or will evade U.S. forces.”

Nineteen vessels turned around in 72 hours. Not one slipped through. And it wasn’t just Iran feeling the squeeze — their biggest trading partners, China chief among them, couldn’t afford the disruption either. The economic vice was total.

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Trump and XI made a deal!

Trump, Xi Reach Deal to Cut Tariffs

President Trump announced “we have a deal” shortly after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday in their first face-to-face since he returned to the White House.

“On the scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One after leaving the South Korean air base that hosted the nearly two-hour summit.

“We have a deal. Now, every year we will renegotiate the deal. But I think the deal will go on for a long time.”

Trump said that Xi agreed to pause for a period of one year Beijing’s new export restrictions on products made with rare-earth and critical minerals, which could have impacted the global supply of high-tech magnets, batteries and semiconductors.

The breakthrough averts Trump’s threatened 100% additional tariff on Chinese goods, which would have taken effect on Nov. 1 in protest of the export restrictions, which required companies to seek special permission for shipments. “There’s no roadblock at all on rare earth,” he said. “It’s a one-year deal that I think will be very routinely extended.”

Trump said Xi also agreed to a renewed crackdown on fentanyl exports and that the US in turn would reduce the 20% fentanyl tariff on Chinese goods to 10%, bringing the average tariff on Chinese goods from 57.6% to 47.6% — slightly lower than the 50% rate currently applied to Brazil and India.

Xi additionally committed to buy “tremendous amounts of soybeans” after halting purchases this year in retaliation for Trump’s fentanyl tariff.

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Trump's Deal Making Flair

Trump Secures $10 Billion Stake in Intel for U.S.

President Donald Trump just dropped a bombshell that could reshape America’s tech future.

According to the Daily Caller, Trump announced on Friday, August 24, 2025, that the U.S. government will grab a 10% equity stake in Intel, valued at around $10 billion, as part of a deal linked to CHIPS Act grants for boosting domestic manufacturing.

This isn’t just a handshake agreement; it’s a calculated move to anchor America’s semiconductor industry. The stake, estimated at $10-11 billion by current market prices, aligns with funds Intel was already slated to receive for building plants on U.S. soil.

“The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 billion,” Trump boasted on Truth Social. Well, that’s a deal most investors would salivate over, but let’s not pretend this is just a Wall Street win—it’s a power move to keep critical tech in American hands.

Trump also declared, “Building leading-edge Semiconductors and Chips, which is what INTEL does, is fundamental to the future of our Nation.”

From tech to steel, Trump’s team is weaving government influence into corporate America like never before. Some call it strategic; others might say it’s a slippery slope. And Intel stock is up as is the Stock Market.

Take Nvidia, for instance—the administration recently greenlit sales of H20 chips to China, but only after securing 15% of the revenue for the government.

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You can’t bluff a Master Dealmaker

Trump Secures China Trade Deal on Rare Earth Minerals, Ending Export Standoff

It feels good to be winning again, doesn’t it?

For years, Americans were told to accept decline as the new normal. We were told that other nations would eat our lunch and that our best days were behind us. But a funny thing happens when leaders actually put America first.

That old sense of American confidence is roaring back. It’s a feeling built on common sense, strength, and keeping promises. When a leader says they will do something and then actually does it, it sends a powerful message to friends and foes alike. Our rivals are starting to get that message loud and clear.

President Trump delivered yet another one of those wins. After months of a tense standoff, he announced a major breakthrough with our biggest rival.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the US signed a trade deal with China and that a deal with India may also be in the works.

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Iran and Trump's brilliance by Dick Morris

Iran: A Huge Success Brilliantly Played By Trump

By Dick Morris on June 14, 2025

Trump faced a problem in taming Iran’s nuclear ambitions: He had promised to avoid U.S. involvement in what he derisively called “endless wars” and now he faced the need, once again, to project American power abroad.

To do so, he played a double game: Negotiate with Iran and lead its rulers to believe they had flummoxed the United States once again — just as they had conned Obama and Biden. But, this time, it was Trump who played the fox, inducing Iran to low.

By letting Israel do the heavy lifting, Trump has his cake and can eat it too. He can accomplish his goal of denying Iran the ultimate weapon while avoiding another “endless war.”

Trump and Israel both understand the basic math of the equation — Iran cannot continue to spread death and mayhem unless we allow it to sell its oil abroad. And through skillful use of sanctions (and secondary sanctions on anyone who doesn’t cooperate) we can stop Iranian oil sales.

Trump has skillfully imposed sanctions not just on Iran but on shipping companies that would carry its oil to China and its other allies. By going after the logistical framework of Iran’s oil trade — the tankers, the insurance companies, the storage facilities, and the export machinery, the U.S. effectively shut down Iranian oil exports — and its funding to spread terrorism — until Biden lifted the sanctions and let Iran get off the mat and back into the ring. Now, Trump needs to retrace his steps and shut Iran down again.

Bear in mind that Trump is targeting not only Iran but China too. It is a twofer. Ninety percent of Iran’s oil exports (2 million barrels per day after Biden lifted sanctions) goes to China. And China gets 16 percent of its oil imports from Iran.

Without nuclear weapons, and with its regional proxies defeated (Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Syria), Iran is very close to being rendered militarily inert. And it gets closer with every Israeli attack.

More Than Just a Swap: A Thousand Reasons for Hope

Trump Announces Ukraine Prisoner Swap, Teases End to Russian War

President Donald Trump casually dropped a piece of news that has the establishment sputtering into their morning lattes. He announced a “major” prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia, congratulating both sides and cheekily asking if this “could lead to something big???” You bet your bottom dollar it could, Mr. President.

This isn’t just some token gesture, mind you. We’re talking about a deal to swap 1,000 prisoners each between Ukraine and Russia. That’s the largest such exchange of the war, a significant development by any measure.

Even Ukrainian President Zelensky, who hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye with common sense, acknowledged, as reported by the Daily Wire, that “The agreement to release 1,000 of our people from Russian captivity became perhaps the only tangible result of the meeting in Turkey.”

While some might focus on the “only,” we see the “tangible result” – a thousand lives potentially changed, a thousand families given hope, all because there’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to global deal-making.

And it turns out, this prisoner swap is just the appetizer. President Trump followed up by revealing he’d had a two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The result? An agreement for Russia and Ukraine to immediately start negotiations for a ceasefire and, more importantly, an end to the war. Imagine that – direct talks, potentially even hosted at the Vatican, cutting through the bureaucratic fog.

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Trump's Art of the Arabian Gulf 😄

The Art Of The Gulf: Trump’s Tactical Feint In Middle East Diplomacy

During his May 2025 trip to the Middle East, Trump weighed a symbolic but potent gesture: announcing that the US would henceforth refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf.

This would have aligned with the naming conventions of America’s Gulf Arab allies, such as Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain, who have for decades referred to the waterway as Al-Khalīj al-ʿArabī.

The gesture, while semantically superficial for most Americans, would have carried outsized weight in Arab capitals. It would have signaled alignment with Arab narratives of regional primacy and further isolated Iran at a moment of strategic recalibration.

Iran, however, was quick to object. Tehran considers the term “Persian Gulf” not merely a geographical label but a symbol of national identity and civilizational pride. Iranian officials have gone so far as to call alternative names “illegitimate and void,” and have launched international protests over perceived slights, as in the infamous 2010 cancellation of the Islamic Solidarity Games.

By signaling willingness to side with Arab nomenclature, Trump put Iran on the defensive, creating precisely the sort of diplomatic dilemma he could later exploit.

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Trump holds the real Leverage in his art of the deal

Related to his evolving posture and policies related to tariffs, what most tend to forget — or in many cases, simply ignore — about Donald Trump is that he is by his very nature a dealmaker. Using tools of leverage to negotiate deals is in his bones, and as President of the United States, he possesses more and stronger tools of leverage than any other human on the planet.

Trump’s political adversaries and U.S. trading partners ignore his basic negotiation strategy, which he has laid out in multiple books. That strategy involves staking out an unreasonable position that is far beyond the actual end result he wants to achieve to force his negotiating counterparty to move in his direction, and to modify his positioning until he reaches his desired outcome.

Even his strongest critics, Democrats, know that but they continue their smear campaign against him.

Thus, a 25% tariff invoked on imports of, for example, steel might become a 10% tariff a month later and be gone entirely a few weeks after that, depending on the response of the counter party.

At the end of the day, the net impact on the economy and individual companies would amount mainly to a temporary loss of certainty in their ability to plan their business, but not a lot else.

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