Saagar Enjeti

And if anything comes from that, we will bring some of that to you.

So here is Trump's first meeting with President Xi in the Hall of the People in China, where he gives him just a real tongue bath, a

I think there's no other way to describe it.

It's a proper glazing here.

A true glazing here from Trump to President Xi.

Let's take a listen.

Trump's opening statement there, key theme of the show yesterday with Professor Pape and with Andy Brown over at Semaphore was his wanting a deal.

That's what a lot of this is about.

Now, so far from the readouts, we haven't gotten anything very specific, but it's not an accident to have Jensen Wong, to have Elon Musk, to have the CEO of Goldman, the CEO of Citi, the CEO of Cargill, all of these people that are there.

This is a trade mission.

This is a 19th century trade mission.

The oligarchs and the capitalists accompany the monarchs along to experience and to plunder

the riches of the Orient.

That's really, except we're probably the ones getting plundered in this scenario.

So that's, I mean, it's pretty clear Trump needs this to go smoothly.

And more importantly, he needs some sort of economic win.

Now, usually the way that this would work in a traditional administration is that for months leading up to this, American envoys would be in China and they'd be working out these memorandums of understanding and

And then Trump and Xi go to the Forbidden City, and they shake hands, and they sign a piece of paper.

That's not how this president operates.

A lot of this is actually going to be discussed face-to-face, vague, you know, oh, China has agreed to invest $3,000 trillion into our economy.