{"id":69959,"date":"2026-05-14T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69959"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:27:25","slug":"trump-romances-xi-jinping-and-brags-lies-that-china-is-winning-the-fast-food-war-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69959","title":{"rendered":"Trump Romances Xi Jinping and Brags (Lies) that China is Winning the Fast Food War in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Donald Trump took valuable time away from his highest priority presidential duties of golfing, planning his vanity ballroom, indicting Democrats, insulting the free press, and watching Fox News, to visit his authoritarian pal, Xi Jinping, in China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump Romances Xi Jinping and Brags (Lies) that China is Winning the Fast Food War in America%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69959\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Trump Romances Xi Jinping and Brags (Lies) that China is Winning the Fast Food War in America%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69959\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-xi-jinping.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Xi Jinping\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69961\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Trump boarded Air Force One with his son Eric, Eric&#8217;s wife, Lara, Stephen Miller, and a horde of billionaire tech company honchos, to engage with the leader of one of America&#8217;s most daunting foes. The American people will be comforted to know that Trump is doing more than posting endless deranged comments on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69682\" target=\"_blank\">his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69934\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Unloads Dozens of Insane Posts, Including Calling for the Arrest of Obama for Treason<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are many crucial issues for Trump to address with Xi, including Trump&#8217;s war in Iran, China&#8217;s threatening stance toward Taiwan, economically critical trade deals, and advancing the American principles of democracy and freedom. Rest assured that Trump won&#8217;t waste any of his limited time in China with those trivialities. Instead, he will perform his organ grinder routine, with Xi as the organist. Trump began his stint in China by paying tribute to its brutal tyrant saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have such respect for China, the job you&#8217;ve done. You&#8217;re a great leader. I say it to everybody.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mlsjaa4m222d\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreibledfpsdzszjbbivp6ristzdshjwd62arhsfzmsjhkrec4aqmvyy\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Trump gushes over China&#39;s dictator, Xi Jinping, because he loves, and hopes to be, a dictator himself someday.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg?ref_src=embed\">News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/post\/3mlsjaa4m222d?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-14T09:34:09.664Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indeed. Xi has done a great job suppressing the Chinese people politically, and enslaving them economically. It&#8217;s a model that Trump envies and hopes to emulate in the U.S. Trump is so impressed by China&#8217;s successes that he even praised them for their superiority in America&#8217;s fast food business&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just as many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans, Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States, all combined. That&#8217;s a pretty big statement&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mltbnf5zoc27\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreicskb2cd7h42hkfbby3wreqvvy43mdnyattkochabsxyrhcejitrm\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Trump is lying &#8211; again (SURPRISE!). And he insists on lying about some of the most petty things.Estimates of the number of Chinese restaurants in the U.S. are between 37,000, and 45,000. But the combined total of the 5 biggest fast food chains is over 67,000.people.com\/trump-boasts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg?ref_src=embed\">News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/post\/3mltbnf5zoc27?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-14T16:51:00.966Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Never mind that, even though Trump is a huge fan of junk food, he was &#8211; as usual &#8211; wrong and\/or lying. It didn&#8217;t take long for the fact checks to reveal how far off Trump was. As <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/trump-boasts-of-us-chinese-restaurants-beijing-banquet-11974827\" target=\"_blank\">reported by People<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There were roughly 37,000 Chinese food locations in the U.S. as of March 2023, according to the Pew Research Center. Other organizations frequently cite a total of 45,000, sourcing that claim to the now-defunct Chinese American Restaurant Association.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The top five fast food chains in the U.S. \u2014 Subway, Starbucks, McDonald\u2019s, Dunkin Donuts and Taco Bell \u2014 had north of 67,000 units combined in 2025, according to QSR magazine, a trade publication that sources data directly from the companies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t surprising that Trump would get this easily verifiable data so wrong. He is notorious for failing to educate himself and for refusing to sit through boring briefings that aren&#8217;t predominantly about him and how awesome he is. And for this summit he saw fit to bring along his family and a bevy of conflicted businessmen, but not a single diplomatic or national security expert on China. And in response to that criticism his communications director, Steven Cheung, lashed out in a typically infantile Trumpian manner&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steven Cheung is not some random, teenage, online goofball. He is Trump&#39;s White House communications director.<\/p>\n<p>Calling a diplomat a &quot;slope-brained, mouth breathing moron&quot; for correctly noting that Trump doesn&#39;t have a single expert on China with him is so&#8230; well&#8230; Trumpy! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z4nowcyg3u\">https:\/\/t.co\/z4nowcyg3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/2054650641302298870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>It would be safe to predict that little or nothing of substance will be achieved at this summit. But Trump will nevertheless boast that it was the most historically fantabulous summit in the history of the human race. And it couldn&#8217;t have possibly been done without His MAGA-sty in charge. And unfortunately, that&#8217;s one thing that he is right about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69917\" target=\"_blank\">SUNDOWNING? 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Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[1310,554,1248,1133,1384],"class_list":["post-69959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-propaganda","tag-xi-jinping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-xi-jinping.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-icn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59044,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59044","url_meta":{"origin":69959,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Aims at Biden with Crackpot COVID Conspiracy, but Hits Trump as a Puppet of China","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/20\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The propagandists at Fox News must be getting pretty desperate for potential pseudo-scandals to gin up against President Biden and the Democrats. 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