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China Just EMBARRASSED Trump and MAGA

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Remember when Trump’s China trade war was the MAGA movement’s big new thing? Andrew Egger walks through how that tough-on-China stance fell apart in just a few weeks—and how MAGA influencers didn’t miss a beat.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:22.3

What ever happened to that glorious clash of civilizations we were supposed to be about to launch

0:26.8

against China just a few weeks ago? Two superpowers enter, one superpower leaves. I mean,

0:31.4

you probably have butter in your fridge that you bought back when this was the line on the trade war.

0:35.3

This is not about tariffs anymore.

0:43.1

Nobody has taken on China yet, not the Europeans, no administration for decades.

0:46.9

As someone who actually does business there, I've had enough.

0:50.3

The government cheats and steals.

0:55.4

And finally, an administration, you may not like Trump, you may not like his style or his rhetoric, finally an administration that puts up and says enough.

1:01.9

That was Kevin O'Leary. You might know him as Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank talking about the

1:05.9

absolute need for the U.S. to go to total economic war against China like yesterday.

1:15.6

China's a bad economic actor. China can't be trusted as a business partner on the world's stage. China lies and cheats and steals, and the world has been putting up with their shit for too long.

1:20.6

And thank God, the Trump administration is finally here on the scene with the stones to make them pay for it.

1:25.6

That clip of Mr. Wonderful went super viral on the MAGA right stones to make them pay for it. That clip of Mr. Wonderful went

1:28.1

super viral on the MAGA Wright last month after Trump's first post-liberation Day pivot.

1:33.7

When you refocused his message from Trump takes on everybody to Trump takes on China,

1:38.3

he dropped most of the massive tariffs he had placed on basically every nation in the world,

1:42.5

and he ratcheted the tariffs on China up to 135%.

1:46.1

Donald Clip Jr. shared that clip with some 100 emojis. Libs of TikTok tweeted it out approvingly.

1:52.6

Charlie Kirk played it at the top of his radio show. Maga influencer Benny Johnson posted that

1:57.5

China is the testing ground for the World Economic Forum's vision of a future totalitarian state.

2:03.4

China must fail. Trump knows this. This is more than just a trade war.

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