Trump Goes to China, Gets Nothing, Comes Back to Iran Crisis
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Tim Miller talked to Nicolle Wallace on MS Now to give his take on Trump’s embarrassing summit in China, where Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping and left with no results for ending the war in Iran. Plus, Tim gave his take on the proposed $1.7 billion fund tied to Trump allies and January 6-related figures, raising fresh concerns about corruption, political favoritism, and taxpayer money being directed toward controversial recipients.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Tim O'er from the Bull Work here. |
| 0:02.0 | It was on with Nicole and John Heilman and Michael Crowley, Michael Feinberg on Deadline White House today. |
| 0:09.0 | Man, these Friday and a day deadline White House does get to you. |
| 0:12.2 | These weeks are long. |
| 0:14.2 | What is it? |
| 0:14.6 | How's it go? |
| 0:15.1 | The years are long and the days are short. |
| 0:17.3 | The weeks are fucking long. |
| 0:19.6 | And there's just so much outrage out there about what Trump is doing. |
| 0:25.3 | But on the other hand, I guess there's some hope and just how incompetent and humiliating it is. |
| 0:30.1 | And so we discuss over the course of this hour more on the $1.7 billion slush fund for insurrectionists that's coming and other Trump allies. |
| 0:40.1 | And we discussed the end of the China summit. |
| 0:42.0 | You know, now the summit has ended. |
| 0:44.8 | I think Tom Nichols kind of had Trump's number on the pod on Thursday, where he called this the |
| 0:50.7 | Joey from Fen Summit. |
| 0:52.9 | Hey, how you doing? |
| 0:53.8 | How you doing? Like, nope, it wasn't just checking |
| 0:57.3 | in. Like, we don't really have anything to do. It was embarrassing and competent, humiliating, |
| 1:03.3 | weak in any other moment. But in this moment, in the middle of the Iran war, it's just mind |
| 1:10.5 | boggling that they could go fly to the other side of the world to see |
| 1:18.3 | our greatest geopolitical foe and just come away with nothing, just come away complimenting |
| 1:26.4 | the cut of she's jib. And war non-war decrease fire in iran |
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