PF1 Friday Mini: Trump's Crafty "Commie Week" Diplomacy

0:00Hello, it's Miranda. I'm back with a new mini episode of Pod Force One. This feature is a little more topical and relevant to my job as a colonist for the New York Post. Today the topic is President Trump's embrace of two communists. It's commie week for President Trump. First, it was New York's unlovely mayor Zoran Mamdani Trump did the great honor of visiting at Gracie Mansion on Monday. Then on Wednesday the president rolled out the literal red carpet for another communist dictator, President Xi Jinping of China. Donald Trump and the first lady warmly greeted Z and his wife Peng Li-An when they elitered from their plane at joint base Andrews and strolled together companionably down the red carpet as a 21 gun salute sounded followed by the national anthems of both nations. Trump could not resist sending a US Air Force jet overhead to Buzz G as a prelude to Thursday's promised spectacular military flyover of F-22 fighters and a B-2 bomber before their over-office talks and state dinner.

1:10Let's hope the impressive military show of forces matched by equal resolve behind closed doors. Despite Trump's elaborate courtesy towards Xi, he clearly has no illusions about China's malintent as it seeks to dislodge America's geopolitical primacy. The president has moved craftily and decisively in his second term to dislodge China's sneaky footholds in America's neighborhood. The Greenland Security Deal he signed at the UN on Tuesday blocks China from establishing bases and exerting influence in America's Arctic North. He's forced Chinese port operators out of the Panama Canal and has taken majority control of the Venezuelan oil that Beijing had its eyes on. Even his belligerence towards Canada is partly designed to extract our weak northern neighbor from China's embrace. While Melania Trump takes Madame Ping on a visit to the National Art Museum, Republican Hawks like Senator Tom Cotton want Trump to lay down the law in the Oval Office and tell Xi to stop stealing our AI models and stop threatening its neighbors like Taiwan and Japan.

2:20Trump could also keep pestering Xi to release Jimmy Li, the Hong Kong publisher from detention. It's a joke that Democrats are now posing as China Hawks after sucking up to Beijing for a generation, especially through Joe Biden's vice presidency and then his presidency. His son Hunter raked in millions of dollars from China while Joe cow-towed to Xi and allowed him to militarize islands in the South China Sea and steal American intellectual property with gay abandon. Yet Democrats and its leader Chuck Schumer has the hootspaw to accuse Trump of, quote, once again, bending the need to the CCP. Fire left Senator Bernie Sanders this week demanded that Trump, quote, sit down and negotiate with President Xi for a comprehensive treaty to establish a ban on superintelligence. And pigs might fly. The Trump administration takes far more seriously than Democrats ever had. China's position as America's archival in the contest for global leadership, especially in the high stakes arms race on AI, which the president wants to rebrand as SI superintelligence.

3:30As Trump repeatedly says, whoever wins AI wins. Tech leaders are reportedly bullish about America winning the race, even while some are begging for government to regulate them and assume legal liability. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is predicting we will have 80% of the world's computing power by 2028, up from 60% last year. In his UN speech Tuesday, Trump dismissed the apocalyptic warnings of AI dooms that the robots will kill us all unless the United Nations or some similar global entity overseas AI development. Quote, Judging by Beijing secrecy and malevolence in allowing COVID-19 to spread from its Wuhan lab around the world, any global supervisory regime would not constrain China, only the US.

4:37Bessent has at least managed to strike a deal with Beijing to establish an emergency hotline for the two countries to communicate in the event of an AI emergency, but again, that relies on trust. While Trump's domestic rivals underestimate Trump's resolve to best China, you can bet G doesn't. Trump received an uncharacteristically enthusiastic hearing at the UN Tuesday. His speech was interrupted three times by applause on Iran, Gaza and Melania Trump's effort to repatriate Ukrainian children from Russia. The crowd applauded again as he finished. The assembled global leaders may be starting to realize that Trump is good for the world, even if Americans barely notice. But while kid gloves warm smiles and quiet sub-tiff user necessary to win the contest with China without risking a trade war or worse, the same cart be said for New York's current toxic leadership. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered the message to Mam Dhani this week that a lot of New Yorkers wished Trump had, quote,

5:40Shame on you Mr. Mam Dhani Netanyahu said in a video message to the mayor ahead of the PM's UN speech Thursday. Shame on you for supporting the hummus terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against New York Jews and, quote, By contrast, Trump could not have been more charming to Mam Dhani, standing alongside the mayor at a press conference saying he had the potential to be a great mayor. Why normalize Mam Dhani by granting him an equal stature before the midterms when Republican candidates across the country are running on the craziness of the far left DSA faction of the Democrats, which has Mam Dhani as its leader, and his good friend, the Hamas loving 9-11 Apologist Hassan Piker as its poster boy. But Dhani, who normally has a ghastly grin plastered on his face, was uncharacteristically somberfaced. He put on the appearance of eating something distasteful as Trump gushed over him. Trump probably wants to coax the mayor into not ruining the hometown he loves, but Mam Dhani just wants to trick Trump into giving him millions of dollars to waste on more socialist boondoggles that will only attrench his power and make New Yorkers' lives worse.

6:53The one way to deal with Mam Dhani in Save New York is to support Bruce Blakeman, who is catching up to Cathy Hocal in the latest polls of the all-important gubernatorial race. If Mam Dhani is so great as Trump is telling us, why would we need Blakeman? Schmoozing G-Week and Stumic, but no more with Mam Dhani, please. Thanks for listening, I'll be back with another mini-episode of Pod Force One on Monday. Hope you continue and enjoy the rest of your week. Thanks for watching.