Trump's China Trip

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🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week on The Necessary Conversation, Bob is still out dealing with some medical issues so Mary Lou, Chad and Haley hold down the fort and discuss: 🇨🇳 Trump took a two-day trip to China that was widely seen as a humiliation for America. President Xi called the U.S. a "declining nation," sat Trump in a smaller chair, and made zero commitments on Iran. Trump brought a squad of billionaires — including Elon Musk and Tim Cook on Air Force One — plus Eric and Lara Trump, but not Melania. He did...

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0:00.0	In the aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before.
0:08.1	Half the country fears the end of democracy and the other half welcomes it.
0:13.1	As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule, now more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation.
0:27.5	Welcome to the necessary conversation.
0:30.6	I'm Chad Colchin.
0:31.7	As you can see, I'm still in Oklahoma with my mom and my sister.
0:35.2	They are both here with me.
0:37.3	We're helping out our mom as Bob, our dad,
0:40.9	is still in the hospital. Mom, you want to give an update on his condition?
0:46.2	About the same, and we get kicked out due to insurances on Tuesday morning. He just, we had a bunch of doctors come through this morning.
0:59.3	We're working on dehydration. We're working on potassium levels, on magnesium levels.
1:07.6	He's starting to give a little pushback. So I'm pushing back on him to do what's right.
1:14.2	And if you want to come home, you have to do these things.
1:17.3	When we first got to rehab, he was good.
1:19.4	He was walking, doing a few things, but now L4, L5 are giving him terrible pain,
1:25.5	and he's decided to shut it down for a while and not get up, and he can't.
1:30.5	So hopefully, maybe Monday, before we get kicked down, I'll have him to the spine doctors,
1:34.9	one of the best one here in OKC.
1:37.1	That's where we're at.
1:38.8	Yeah.
1:40.1	It's been interesting to navigate the American health care system and see that, I mean, I kind of already knew this from cancer treatment, but the insurance companies are the ones who control all of your health care decisions.
1:53.6	Doctors have no say in it.
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