Will Republicans Divorce Trump Over Xi Embrace? Probably Not | Evan Gershkovich
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Oh, we got ladies and gentlemen, good! Welcome to the show! We have a tremendous one for it tonight. My name is Jon Stewart. Great show for tonight. Later on in the program I'll be talking to uh journalist Evan Gershkovich, held in a Russian prison for 16 uh months, which uh may or may not come up during the interview. I I'll probably bring that up. Uh I don't know what we're gonna talk about, but first. Oh Many of you remember.
Why did Trump give Xi Jinping an extravagant White House welcome?
Last week Uh a young man by the name of Donald Trump. Picked up a young man by the name of Xi Jinping. Chinese President, uh, at the airport for a pivotal three day visit to Washington. Now, as with any monumental meeting of superpowers, with profound repercussions for global safety and stability, it began with House tour. Have you seen my pictures? Do you guys have pictures? Have you guys seen our outdoor carpet? Do you guys have outdoor carpet? Have have you guys seen our sky? Do you have a sky? It's white. Oh, do you s do you see that lady with the face? Yeah. Do you do you think she's pretty? Oh good, yeah, she's very funny.
By the way. What a genuine thumbs up. It's the thumbs up you give when your friends show you their kids artwork. Oh. Well m m Madison made that all out of macaroni. In fact, Trump spent most of X White House visit just pointing at shit, while X did his best effort to pretend to be impressed. Although I I'm sure they talked about issues of national importance.
We had a great meeting and he has great interest in granite. He likes he likes granite. He's an expert on stone, aside from many other things. And he loves good granite.
Does he? Does he love good granite? Is that his I love good granite face? Because it looks like his I'd rather be standing in front of a tank in a square face. Yeah. Look it up. Like President Trump, I'm sure you're proud of your new circular granite helicopter parking spot.
Did Trump offer to sell weapons to China, and how did Republicans respond?
But just so you know, this is Shenzhen, China. They've got a fully autonomous magnetic levitation train. Pretty sure he's not blown away by carved rock in shape of circle. By the way, you know, China did use to work in rock. About three thousand years ago. So again I'm pretty
sure Xi Jinping is is not like This used to be grass and now it's rock? We have so much to learn from your people. But listen.
Huh. I'm sure he wants to be a good host, as long as Trump understands the seriousness of the competition between our two nations and is diligent in not undermining America's national security. I mean, national security is the whole reason we're paying six hundred million dollars for this fing ballroom, right? So you'll keep that behind the curtain, yeah?
As a special treat in honor of President Xi and Madame Peng, I'd like to invite everyone in the room to visit through uh that beautiful curtain in the back, the new ballroom that you've heard about. You'll be the first people to step foot on that.
Maybe Trump's just trying to sell Xi Jinping on renting the ballroom out for his next big function. I don't know.
What?
Yeah. Jewish, surprising. Xi Jinping. Yeah. Who the thought? Probably changed his name. Anyway. Surprising how lighthearted their interactions seemed to be given recent developments.
China sent thirteen hundred shipments of drone and missile parts to Iran from the start of the year through the end of June.
China has been sending weapons to Iran. Did China supplying Iran with weapons come up at all?
Діс Амбасадор до Чайна клеймс президент Трамп оформ то сел Американсьве Чина.
It only came up as an opportunity. I gotta say, that sounds like bullshit. Unless I hear this from the actual mouth of the US ambassador to China, I do not believe it.
President Trump continues to say, hey, we sell arms to other uh people around the world. Uh he actually asked uh President C would he like to buy some at one point. What the
f How does America even stay on the map sometimes?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:07
2
Why did Trump give Xi Jinping an extravagant White House welcome?
1:07–3:25
3
Did Trump offer to sell weapons to China, and how did Republicans respond?
3:25–6:18
4
Are Republican objections to Trump’s China summit a real break with MAGA?
6:18–10:17
5
What drew Evan Gershkovich to reporting in Russia?
10:17–12:30
6
How did Russia’s wartime censorship put foreign journalists at risk?
12:30–14:02
7
How did a source and a second meeting lead to Gershkovich’s arrest?
14:02–16:59
8
What was life like in Russian prison, and how did Gershkovich cope?
16:59–56:06
Speakers
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