Trump promised to bring 500,000 Chinese students and allow China to own U.S. farmland-- MAGA is enraged

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

https://newrepublic.com/post/210539/maga-reeling-trump-welcomes-chinese-students-us-farms-xi

MAGA is Reeling as Trump Welcomes Chinese Students to the U.S.
. “I respect President Trump, but if he brings 500,000 Chinese students to Florida colleges, I will raise tuition on them to $1,000,000/year,” wrote Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback.


President Trump promised to bring 500,000 Chinese students to American universities and allow China to own U.S. farmland—leaving the MAGAverse enraged. 

“But if you don’t have those students—good students, by the way—if you don’t … if they’re good and they want to stay in America, we won’t give them a green card and things like that,” Trump rambled on to Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Friday. “Frankly, I think that it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here. I think it’s a good thing. Not everybody agrees with me, and it doesn’t sound like a very conservative position. And I’m as conservative—I’m a conservative guy. I’m really a common sense guy, I think, more than a conservative.” 


“Actually, no, those 500,000 students are by law required to act as spies for China. This is the law in China. If removing them sinks some schools, then they deserve to sink,” MAGA influencer Robby Starbuck opined. “The only Chinese students we should invite are the top 0.001% who we should invite to defect to America. And farmland? Lol. We shouldn’t even let a Chinese company visit American farmland let alone own it. No exceptions. I give the Chinese credit, they would NEVER let Americans own their farmland. America First.”


“Trump says it’s insulting to tell China their students can’t go to our universities, imagine being an American student and receiving a rejection letter while 500,000 Chinese students get in!” former MAGA Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote. “And NO it is not ok for China to buy our farmland!!! And no that’s not common sense!!!”

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. It won't be long before he changes his tune.

[mucifer]

2. I'm sure most of maga doesn't know about it or will make up excuses as to how this will own

the libs.

They hate us more than they love themselves.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. Or blame it on Biden

[Srkdqltr]

4. This isn't real?? Really ? Hard to know these days. Spies? Seriously?

[NJCher]

5. China likes to buy farmland near

sensitive military installations, like Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

[Amishman]

18. Yup, China is dangerous and we need to be unwinding our connections

Not building more.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. I'm sure that's a complete coincidence.

Yup. Just fine.

[Johonny]

6. Did they think Trump was good at being president

LOL, suckers.

[Wounded Bear]

7. So he is erasing all of the gains ICE has made with one handshake?

[NJCher]

8. MAGAt Governors/Senators/Reps Don't Like This Stuff

Ricketts/Nebraska sponsored a bill last year that would help prevent China or any other country to buy farmland. It was called the AFIDA Improvements Act and it would "equip the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to combat foreign adversaries’ ownership of American agricultural land." Link.

Look who the sponsors are:

Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), John Fetterman (D-PA), Roger Wicker (R-MS), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Katie Britt (R-AL) are original co-sponsors of this legislation in the Senate. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) is leading companion legislation in the House.



To say this will not go over well is putting it mildly.

BTW, I don't think this act has passed yet. It is still in committee, if I'm reading it right.

[durablend]

10. They'll suck it up because Trump says it's great

[NJCher]

11. Want to bet?

$25 and the loser pays it to DU as a contribution.

In 2 weeks the responses should have been aired. Bet would be determined on May 30.

[Aristus]

9. So... they're just NOW getting outraged over Trump's pay-to-play Presidency?

Fuck ‘em.

They voted for others to suffer. They deserve some of their own.

[ananda]

15. Not only that. Trump told them...

he didn't care about them, directly at a rally,
and that all he cared about was their votes.

Magats are like abused children with
Stockholm Syndrome.

[dalton99a]

12. Kick

[dickthegrouch]

13. I thought America was full /nt

[Renew Deal]

14. James Fishback's slogan should be "Keep Florida Dumb"

I agree on not selling farm land, though it also shouldn’t be sold for data centers .

[indusurb]

16. This is nothing new

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students have been coming to our shores for decades now. Not only are they good students(some of whom stay here inthe US) but they are also profitable ones that help keep our small colleges afloat. Since they aren't in state they pay full tuition. I know of one local community college that established complete dominance in NAIA volleyball back in the '90s and '00s due to the fact they had a direct recruiting pipeline to top notch Chinese student athletes. And no, they weren't required to be spies.

As far as farmland goes, they're not buying up farms directly, they're buying up farming corporations. Frankly all corporate farming needs to go, and I agree with the notion that we need to keep American farmland for Americans. China can't feed itself, which is why they want American farmland. Farm goods are one of the last things we can trade internationally, we shouldn't give that away

[Kaleva]

17. Many family farms are incorporated

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Some of tge largest farms in Wisconsin are family controlled corporations. These mega family farms are running the small family farms out of business.