Trump’s crafty ‘Commie Week’ diplomacy with – Latest News
It’s Commie Week for President Trump.
First it was New York’s unlovely Mayor Mamdani Trump did the great honor of visiting at Gracie Mansion on Monday.
Then on Wednesday the president rolled out the literal pink carpet for an additional Communist dictator, President Xi Jinping of China.
Donald Trump and the primary girl warmly greeted Xi and his spouse, Peng Liyuan, after they alighted from their aircraft at Joint Base Andrews and strolled collectively companionably down the pink carpet as a 21-gun salute sounded, adopted by the national anthems of each nations.
Trump couldn’t resist sending a US Air Force jet overhead to buzz Xi as a prelude to Thursday’s promised spectacular army flyover of F-22 fighters and a B-2 bomber earlier than their Oval Office talks and state dinner.
Let’s hope the spectacular army show of power is matched by equal resolve behind closed doorways.
Despite Trump’s elaborate courtesies towards Xi, he clearly has no illusions about China’s mal-intent because it seeks to dislodge America’s geopolitical primacy.
The president has moved craftily and decisively in his second time period to dislodge China’s sneaky footholds in America’s neighborhood.
The Greenland security deal he signed on the UN on Tuesday blocks China from establishing bases and exerting affect in America’s Arctic north.
He’s pressured Chinese port operators out of the Panama Canal and has taken majority control of the Venezuelan oil that Beijing had its eyes on.
Even his belligerence towards Canada is partly designed to extract our weak northern neighbor from China’s embrace.
Lay down the law!
While Melania Trump takes Madame Peng on a go to to the national artwork museum, Republican hawks like Sen. Tom Cotton need Trump to put down the law within the Oval Office and inform Xi to stop stealing our AI fashions and stop threatening its neighbors like Taiwan and Japan.
Trump might additionally keep pestering Xi to release Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong writer, from detention.
It’s a joke that Democrats are actually posing as China hawks after sucking up to Beijing for a era — particularly by way of Joe Biden’s vice-presidency after which his presidency.
His son Hunter raked in tens of millions of {dollars} from China whereas Joe kowtowed to Xi and allowed him to militarize islands within the South China Sea and steal American mental property with homosexual abandon.
Yet Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer has the chutzpah to accuse Trump of “once again bend[ing] the knee to the CCP [Chinese Communist Party].”
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Far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders this week demanded that Trump “sit down and negotiate with President Xi for a comprehensive treaty to establish . . . a ban on superintelligence.”
And pigs would possibly fly.
The Trump administration takes far more critically than Democrats ever had China’s place as America’s archrival within the contest for world management — particularly in the high-stakes arms race on AI — which the president desires to rebrand as SI — Super Intelligence.
As Trump repeatedly says: “Whoever wins AI, WINS!”
Tech leaders are reportedly bullish about America successful the race — even whereas some are begging for presidency to control them and assume legal legal responsibility.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is predicting we can have 80% of the world’s computing energy by 2028, up from about 60% final 12 months.
Apocalypse not!
In his UN speech Tuesday, Trump dismissed the apocalyptic warnings of AI doomers that the robots will kill us all except the UN or some related world entity oversees AI development.
“We’re leading now over China by a lot and everyone else, and we’re going to keep it that way. We’re going to keep it very, very straight and very strong. I’m not going to stifle growth of anything that’s going to be bigger than the Industrial Revolution,” Trump mentioned.
“We will be very careful, and that’s why we have a Department of Justice.”
Judging by Beijing’s secrecy and malevolence in permitting COVID-19 to unfold from its Wuhan lab world wide, any world supervisory regime wouldn’t constrain China, solely the US.
Bessent has a minimum of managed to strike a deal with Beijing to determine an emergency hotline for the 2 international locations to speak within the occasion of an AI emergency, however again that depends on trust.
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While Trump’s home rivals underestimate Trump’s resolve to best China, you possibly can guess Xi doesn’t.
Trump obtained an uncharacteristically enthusiastic listening to on the UN Tuesday — his speech was interrupted thrice by applause, on Iran, Gaza and Malania Trump’s efforts to repatriate Ukrainian kids from Russia.
The crowd applauded again as he completed.
The assembled world leaders could also be beginning to notice that Trump is nice for the world, even when Americans barely discover.
But whereas child gloves, heat smiles and quiet subterfuge are essential to win the competition with China with out risking a commerce struggle or worse, the identical can’t be mentioned for New York City’s present poisonous management.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered the message to Mamdani this week that a lot of New Yorkers want Trump had.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosts President Trump for a assembly at Gracie Mansion on Sept. 21, 2026.
“Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani,” Netanyahu mentioned in a video message to the mayor forward of the PM’s UN speech Thursday.
“Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against New York Jews.”
By distinction, Trump couldn’t have been more charming to Mamdani, standing alongside the mayor at a press convention saying he had the potential to be a “great” mayor.
Wrong to raise stature
Why normalize Mamdani by granting him equal stature earlier than the midterms when Republican candidates throughout the nation are working on the craziness of the far-left DSA faction of the Democrats, which has Mamdani as its chief and his good good friend, the Hamas-loving 9/11 apologist Hasan Piker, as its poster boy?
Mamdani, who usually has a ghastly grin plastered on his face, was uncharacteristically somber-faced.
He put on the looks of eating one thing distasteful as Trump gushed over him.
Trump in all probability desires to coax the mayor into not ruining the hometown he loves, however Mamdani simply desires to trick Trump into giving him tens of millions of {dollars} to waste on more socialist boondoggles that may entrench his energy and make New Yorkers’ lives worse.
The one option to deal with Mamdani and save New York is to assist Bruce Blakeman, who’s catching up to Kathy Hochul within the newest polls of the all-important gubernatorial race.
But if Mandani is so great, as Trump is telling us, why would we need Blakeman?
Schmoozing Xi we are able to abdomen, however no more with Mandani, please.
