China’s Racist Retaliation Meets Trump’s Tariff Crusade

China’s launch of a racist cam­paign mock­ing obese Amer­i­cans as retal­i­a­tion for Trump’s tar­iffs, which aim to address a per­sis­tent U.S. trade deficit—reaching $918.4B in 2024, with $295B tied to Chi­na. Trump is tack­ling mul­ti­ple crises simul­ta­ne­ous­ly: halt­ing ille­gal immi­gra­tion, curb­ing car­tels and drugs, and revi­tal­iz­ing the econ­o­my for all Amer­i­cans. His tar­iffs close loop­holes Chi­na used to fun­nel prod­ucts through oth­er coun­tries, while the CCP blocks U.S. goods from its mar­ket and man­dates own­er­ship stakes for for­eign busi­ness­es, exac­er­bat­ing trade imbal­ances.

Trump’s efforts face domes­tic resis­tance, with Repub­li­cans more focused on polls, reelec­tion, and lob­by­ist ties than sup­port­ing his agen­da, despite his push to reset eco­nom­ic dis­par­i­ties. Crit­ics argue his goals will take years, with some dis­miss­ing them as insur­mount­able, while oth­ers brand the “deep state’s” pro­vi­sion of work per­mits and ben­e­fits to ille­gals as trea­son. Mean­while, Ukraine’s Zelen­sky seeks to rene­go­ti­ate a min­er­als deal with the U.S., assert­ing lever­age amid ongo­ing ten­sions.

Chi­na bris­tles at JD Vance’s remark about buy­ing from “Chi­nese peas­ants,” high­light­ing their frus­tra­tion with the tar­iff-dri­ven imbal­ance. Repub­li­cans pub­licly wor­ry not about the tar­iffs’ eco­nom­ic impact but about los­ing polit­i­cal pow­er and lucra­tive lob­by­ist deals, sug­gest­ing some may be influ­enced by Chi­na. Ques­tion­ing Congress’s nego­ti­a­tion track record, which has led to the cur­rent predica­ment. Trump’s poli­cies are framed as a bold chal­lenge to a cor­rupt sys­tem, with Chi­na forced to adapt despite their pro­pa­gan­da push­back, and the “swamp” of self-inter­est­ed politi­cians fac­ing dis­rup­tion.

• Chi­na launch­es racist humil­i­a­tion cam­paign fea­tur­ing mor­bid­ly obese Amer­i­cans to retal­i­ate against Trump’s tar­iffs. Trump is hav­ing to deal with every­thing at one time. Stop­ping the print­ing press­es, stop­ping the drugs and car­tels, stop the ille­gals, bring an econ­o­my that is good for all Amer­i­cans. 
• Trump is reset­ting our trade deficit. Trump closed China’s loop­holes stop­ping them from using oth­er coun­tries to move their prod­ucts into the US and ship­ping direct­ly to the buy­ers. The US has con­sis­tent­ly run a trade deficit mean­ing it imports more goods and ser­vices than it experts for most of the post WWII peri­od. In 2024 the goods and ser­vices deficit reached $918.4B. That left the US run­ning a trade deficit with Chi­na — the dif­fer­ence between what it imports and exports of $295B in 2024. They will not let the Chi­nese peo­ple have access to our prod­ucts. Don’t for­get you don’t have busi­ness in Chi­na unless you have the CCP rep­re­sen­ta­tive have own­er­ship stakes in your com­pa­ny. They will not let our prod­ucts on their shelves. 
• Repub­li­cans are sweat­ing and hav­ing polls run­ning. They are not in the rooms thank­ing pres­i­dent Trump for sav­ing the coun­try. 
• What you keep hear­ing is that what Trump wants to do will take years to com­plete. It is almost like they give up because the moun­tain is too big. 
• What the deep state has done is trea­son. They gave ille­gals work autho­riza­tion cards, social cards, and ben­e­fits just after a few months of being in the US. What they have done is trea­son.
• Zelen­sky wants to rewrite the deal. Ukraine has devel­oped its vision for a text of min­er­als deal with the US for­eign min­is­ter. He believes he still has the deal. 
• The Chi­nese are upset that JD Vance said we pur­chase from these Chi­nese peas­ants. They don’t have the cards. There is an imbal­ance of prod­ucts between the US and Chi­na. We have repub­li­cans that are in tears over the tar­iffs and stock mar­ket. But the real­i­ty is that Chi­na will have to deal. 
• Repub­li­cans are going pub­lic with their grow­ing wor­ries not about Trump’s tar­iffs but about reelec­tion and their lob­by­ist deals. It’s stop­ping the swamp from get­ting rich. Won­der how many politi­cians are owned by Chi­na and are start­ing to get ner­vous. And Con­gress wants to nego­ti­ate? Look at where we are at based on their nego­ti­at­ing.