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How are world leaders outmaneuvering Trump?
Donald Trump is getting easily outmaneuvered by China and its leader, Xi Jinping, even Republican members in the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Whether they want to admit it or whether they're saying it privately, Donald Trump and Elon Musk gutting the main source of America's soft power, USAID, which Elon Musk and Donald Trump are seeking to destroy and just completely rip apart.
The destruction of that, the main beneficiary is Xi Jinping in China. They are already getting calls from our former allies asking for help. America's leaving. We need your help. China's going to swoop in there and establish those relationships which were built over a long time by the United States. China was prepared for this. They're taking advantage of it.
Foreign Affairs Magazine just wrote an article. Chinese leaders expect that the Trump administration policies will dismantle the foundation of U.S. global hegemony and create an opportunity for Beijing to expand its influence farther and faster, writes Yoon Sun right here.
Just so you can see how Donald Trump has basically forced everybody around him, or they've done it willingly, to compromise things that they've said before, let me just show you—and CNN did a great job compiling this—
Secretary of State Rubio, former Senator Marco Rubio, the importance that he said existed with USAID, which now Marco Rubio is contributing to destroying because Donald Trump and the co-president or the real president, Elon Musk, is telling him to do so. Just look about what a malleable, weak individual, I'm going to call him a man, malleable, weak individual Marco Rubio is.
This is what his views were before about how important USAID is, how small it was on our overall budget, less than 1%. Watch this right here.
We give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interest. That's why we give foreign aid. Now, obviously, there's a component to foreign aid that's humanitarian in scope, and that's important too. I promise you it's going to be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti-Americanism, anti-American terrorism. If the United States of America was the reason why they're even alive today.
Anybody who tells you that we can slash foreign aid and that will bring us to balance is lying to you. Foreign aid is less than 1% of our budget. It's just not true.
So that's what Marco Rubio said when he was in the Senate, much different than what you're hearing him say now as Secretary of State, which is destroy USAID, fire everybody. I mean, just horrific stuff we're hearing, right? Like people who have been receiving medication from the U.S., being forced to basically die, not get their medication.
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