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Donald Trump, who pretends to be a peacemaker, is leaving.
For more than 30 years, the Americans and the Russians – and before that, the Soviets – negotiated a ban on nukes. The idea was simple: Both countries have the ability to destroy the world many times over, so why spend countless billions in an endless arms race?
Trump made this announcement shortly before meeting with the President of China, which is China’s third-tier power, but if it is available soon.
“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons equally,” the President said. Although “we have more nuclear weapons than anyone,” he testified, “I think we should and we should.”
Trump breaks the 33-year nuclear deal as if to start a new arms race around the world
This comes as Vladimir Putin is making military changes, saying he is developing a nuclear-powered torpedo designed to take out the United Kingdom under a tsunami of radioactive water.
I’ll leave it to the experts to debate whether it makes sense for Trump to dive into expensive weapons that create a rapidly changing environment.
But politically it could be a tough sell when the White House says it won’t get the money to keep the plan burning from Saturday, due to the government shutdown now reaching the one-month mark.
He was different and led to a bitter exchange with Chuck Schumer, who said that Trump was “putting it in Asia, dancing in Malaysia, building Democrats to end the shutdown.” The President, saying that he worked really hard, was called Schumer’s words “almost Trouveous !!!”
The Kremlin is said to be developing a nuclear-powered torpedo capable of burying a small country in radioactive water. (Ramil Sitdikov/Pool/Reuters)
It is true that Trump did not participate in the shutdown, hoping that the other party would be pressured by the increasing level of pain.
Now that the dust has settled, it seems that Trump didn’t get much out of his 90-minute session with Xi jiinping, other than putting paperwork on top of it.
Both sides have agreed to roll back the annual high tax rates, adding to the tension but essentially a return to the status quo. It is a tactic of trumpic crescendo to make threats and soften his position over time. Maybe he’ll agree to talk to Canada again after his tirade about that Reagan tax ad.
There was no word on Tiktok, which was thought to be one of the easiest problems to solve. Trump enlisted some rich allies to buy the most popular app, but he needs the approval of the XI – and he didn’t get it.
Trump gets xi bad wins, but he has one big miss
During the speech in South Korea, XI also agreed to send parameters to the physical holes in the world that are most important for making ultra-fast chips.
Beijing also agreed to continue its purchases of American soybeans at previous levels for the next three years. This is good news for our farmers, but also, basically a return to previous levels. Treasury Secretary Howard Hessent says the rate could go much higher, but that’s just an optimistic guess.
The XI, by contrast, cares about one issue above all else – and Trump says we’ve gone nowhere (unless it’s kept secret).
Taiwan.
President Trump and Chinese CounterPart XI Jinping speaking in South Korea, although it did not appear before the meeting. (Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters)
Several reports say that the XI was hoping that Trump would soften his language a bit on what China sees as a law-breaking province. The US has always been there to defend the island if it was attacked. Xi did not expect, but Trump’s statement that the US does not support the independence of Taiwan – What other witnesses, including Bill Clinton, would help the Chinese dictator count the country if he decides to oppose the country.
Trump says that China does not want to attack Taiwan, and he has not said much in response to this “TAIWAN is Taiwan.”
All of this coincides with a reset of the US’s acceptance of relations with China, reducing months of difficult negotiations. But Trump, now planning to visit China, actually brought things back to scale.
Trump maintained that “Taiwan is Taiwan.” (Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Photo Photo/Reuters)
The bottom line: I’ve been saying for months that Trump wasn’t going to want a third name, that he was actually going to pick up the newspapers by looking closely at the idea.
Turns out I was right.
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“I think I’m not allowed to run,” which is “too bad,” he told reporters on Air Force one. You are right. It is absolutely prohibited by the Constitution.
So of all the speculations of the media, some of them were raised by Steve Bannon, some of them destroyed his grand ballroom plan – why build it if he doesn’t do it? – Trump has never been too bad about it.
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No President wants to be seen as a duck of previous letters. By leaving the department Ajar, Trump got the idea that the media, politicians and the public may have to face him after 2028. But now it has slipped.
