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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Panics as Xi Refuses to Greet Him

13 May 2026

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Chapter 1: Why did Donald Trump panic upon arriving in China?

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Donald Trump is panicking and he is livid as he arrived in China and Xi Jinping was not there to greet him when Air Force One landed. Not only that, Xi Jinping did not send any top Chinese government officials to greet Donald Trump. Instead, Xi Jinping sent lower level ceremonial people from the government.

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And then he also sent a group of Chinese schoolchildren to wave in Donald Trump's face, mostly Chinese flags, some American flags. This was a greeting that showed that Xi Jinping did not care that the president of the United States was arriving for a purported state visit. Now, Donald Trump was very nervous walking down the steps of Air Force One. He was struggling step by step.

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He was holding on for dear life not to fall down the steps. Let me show you what went down. This clip is going viral right now as Donald Trump struggles to get down the stairs of Air Force One.

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Chapter 2: What message did Xi Jinping send by not greeting Trump?

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Let's play it. Now, let me show you an angle of the schoolchildren right here that Xi Jinping sent to wave, again, mostly Chinese flags in Donald Trump's face. This is what Donald Trump was greeted with, Chinese schoolchildren, not Xi Jinping. Here, play this clip. show you more B-roll of Donald Trump struggling down those stairs.

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Again, you can see him holding on to the handle for dear life right here. I just find it so interesting that he would always mock former President Biden for this exact thing. And Donald Trump just looks so much worse. So weak, so frail, so pathetic looking. No Xi Jinping, no top level foreign minister there. Here's how state regime media, which calls itself Fox, tried to spin this.

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And then they admit, oh, it looks like Elon Musk is there. Who else is there? This is how state regime tried to spin it. Here, play this clip.

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You know, the president comes in, I think that's Elon Musk right there, I do believe, just behind there. Yes, right in front of the ambassador, David Perdue. So we'll try to pick out a few others. Yeah. Eric Trump and Laura Trump. We mentioned that a moment ago. So tomorrow is the bilat and then he is going to tour some important places. And then on Friday before they leave is the tea.

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And then there is the the lunch. These are participants. These kids apparently include 10 American expatriate children that were selected by Chinese organizers to make the president feel warmness of home. You can see the beast is leaving.

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Now, as former Ambassador Luis Moreno explains, no Xi, no foreign minister, just bells and whistles and lower ranking folks. As someone who has done more than a few POTUS visits abroad, that doesn't happen unless someone, Xi Jinping, is sending a message to Donald Trump.

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i mean you had david purdue there which donald trump's ambassador uh to china over there you had uh china's ambassador to washington uh there you had uh a vice minister there but none of the top level people uh were there and this is what donald trump posted as he was uh arriving in uh china and then he's gone radio silence since he landed

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He just wanted everybody to know as he was on the plane heading to China that CNBC incorrectly reported that the great Jensen Wang of NVIDIA was not invited to the incredible gathering. But he's going to be there with all of these CEOs. Now, Donald Trump is...

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so paranoid he has such imposter syndrome he knows that he is so weak and frail uh when negotiating with xi jinping that donald trump is surrounding himself and he's so insecure that he's surrounding himself with all of these top-level ceos he thinks that's going to make him look strong but it's making him look so utterly weak and pathetic i mean you can see elon musk

Chapter 3: How did Trump react while descending Air Force One?

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In the background, you can see some of these other CEOs that were there. Also, you had Eric Trump and Lara Trump there. Now, Eric Trump runs the Trump family businesses right now. I'm sure going there to scoop up some more business opportunities for the Trump family, in my opinion, continuing to use the office for quid pro quo. That's my opinion.

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You had MAGA Republican Congress member James Comer, though, and all the MAGA sycophants this morning, you know, saying, uh, I can't think of any better person to be leading these negotiations right now than Donald Trump. Play this clip.

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There's so much on the table and I can't think of a better person to lead the negotiations than President Trump. China has already received the message that the United States is serious with all the tariffs that have been slapped on China.

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And if I were President Xi, I would worry if this is an unsuccessful summit after two days, that China could be faced with even more tariffs from the United States. No, I think that's a great point.

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Chapter 4: What was the significance of the schoolchildren's greeting?

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But the American people definitely disagree with that. Donald Trump's approval at all-time lows. Never have we had a president this weak, this unpopular, doing a trip abroad. I mean, Donald Trump's less popular than Nixon at the time that Nixon resigned. Here's how Harry Enten on CNN described it this morning regarding Donald Trump's approval. Let's play this clip.

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We've been talking about inflation. We've been talking about the president's approval on it, which is not good. Our new poll shows that people are very unhappy with the economy, with inflation, with his handling of inflation. On a historical perspective, though, how much don't they like how he's handling inflation? These are the ugliest numbers I have ever seen on inflation.

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And it's not just one poll, Johnny Berman. It's many polls. Just take a look here. President's net approval on inflation. The five worst polls ever. for any president, they all belong to Donald John Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. The CNN poll, one of them 48 points below water on the net approval rating.

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So what we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever in multiple polls now belong to the president of the United States, Donald Trump. It is a record simply put, you do not want to have. The five worst polls ever. Five worst polls ever. Joe Biden's not in there? Joe Biden's not in there. Jimmy Carter's not in there? Jimmy Carter's not in there. All Donald Trump? All Donald Trump.

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The five worst ever belong to this gentleman on this side of the screen.

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And by the way, here's how they're referring to it, or here's how they're discussing it on Canadian TV right now about how weak it looks when Donald Trump has been arriving to China. Let's play this clip.

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I imagine, though, that there are people in China who are wondering how the US, who should have had every advantage in this war that it started, is getting bogged down by a much lesser power. That is an American tradition, I hate to tell you.

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Chapter 5: Who attended the welcoming event for Trump in China?

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But I had gone after Jack Smith. I had issued articles of impeachment against Kamala Harris. And this was two weeks later.

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You know, also while Donald Trump taking this trip to China, we got some more horrible economic news here in the United States.

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Chapter 6: What does Trump's communication director's response reveal?

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Month over month, US PPI, the Producer Price Index inflation, PPI inflation, rose 1.5% in April, marking the biggest monthly jump in inflation since March of 2022. As the Kobayashi letter explains, all of that data is very clear. Consumers are about to face another wave of serious pressures on spending power.

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So April PPI inflation surged to 6%, well above the expectations of 4.9%, and the highest level since January 2023. Core PPI inflation rose to 5.2%, above the expectations of 4.3%. Both CPI and PPI inflation are now officially at three-year highs. Odds of a interest rate hike now continue to spike, continue to rise. Not rate cut decreases, interest rates increase.

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Now, you may be saying, Ben, I'm a little confused. Didn't you give an inflation report yesterday? where you said inflation rose to 3.8%. Yeah, that was the consumer price index. That was consumer inflation. So how we're all feeling the inflation that was 3.8% year over year. PPI is the producer price index. Basically,

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how the manufacturers, how the producers are feeling, you know, how they're experiencing inflation that then gets passed on to consumers. So when the PPI starts to increase, the consumer price index often follows. That's why both of these indicators taken together are really bad. It should also be noted that all of the 48 Bloomberg economist forecasters

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They all predicted that PPI was gonna be significantly less than it came in at, which is not good at all. Another important data point is Brett Bruin points out about this China trip. Let me go back to that for a moment. There was not a single China expert with Donald Trump on Air Force One.

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As Brett Bruin explains, POTUS would normally have at least one National Security Council, one State Department official. The top Chinese, the top people on Chinese affairs would be surrounding him, not Eric Trump, not just corporate CEOs who are interested in the bottom line for themselves.

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And it underlines how utterly unprepared Donald Trump is for his meeting with Xi Jinping, to which Donald Trump's communication director flipping out this morning and saying, you have no idea what you're talking about, you slope-brained, mouth-breathing moron. Stop calling yourself an expert in anything aside from sucking.

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Anyone that hires you, not many, should get an immediate refund and payment for wasting their time. That's the official statement out of Trump's White House from the communications director, I might add.

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And then finally, as Donald Trump takes this disastrous trip to China, we learned last week, of course, about Iran's trip to China, Iran Foreign Minister, Araghchi, getting a hero's welcome in China, much different than what we're seeing from Donald Trump so far. And what we're learning now as well,

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