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Trump defends U-turn on Chinese student visas after Maga backlash
BBC News via Yahoo ^ | Mon, September 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM PDT | Robin Levinson King - BBC News

Posted on 09/01/2025 5:51:44 PM PDT by Mariner

US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to issue 600,000 Chinese student visas, despite a backlash from some supporters.

He told the Daily Caller on Sunday that it would be "insulting" to ban them, and said his move would benefit smaller universities.

The president is reversing the hard line his administration has taken on this for months, as trade talks with China continue.

Some of his allies in the Maga wing of Trump's Republican Party have expressed anger and confusion. "I just don't understand it for the life of me," said Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "Those are 600,000 spots that American kids won't get."

On X, Trump ally Laura Loomer wrote: "Nobody, I repeat nobody, wants 600,000 more Chinese 'students' aka Communist spies in the United States."

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanbashingtroll; bbc; chinese; chinesestudents; communist; communistspies; fakefreepers; itscallednegotiation; moroner; nevertrumpingtroll; notauturn; robinlevinsonking; russiantroll; spies; students; tdsbait; trumpbasher
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Doubling down on betrayal.

None of his voters voted for this crap.

1 posted on 09/01/2025 5:51:44 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

Well his true colors are coming out and yes you did vote for this..to many were blinded by true love...Love sick if you will..


2 posted on 09/01/2025 5:54:11 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Mariner

Didn’t he say last week that he misspoke that the 600,000 was two years of the current 300,000 per year and that wasn’t going to change. We were lied to twice. What is Trump getting out of this?


3 posted on 09/01/2025 5:54:20 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: Mariner

Ramp it down to 600 individuals next year.


4 posted on 09/01/2025 5:54:31 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: dpetty121263

You never say anything positive about Donald almost like you have an….agenda


5 posted on 09/01/2025 5:56:06 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: dpetty121263

You’re a jackass.

Yeah should have sat out the vote and let Harris run things. Because 0 percent is better lest we be “in love”

You and this site have become worthless. You know you guys have zero influence. Just a circle jerk of bitterness and stupidity.


6 posted on 09/01/2025 5:56:09 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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“ Doubling down on betrayal.
None of his voters voted for this crap.”
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I certainly did not. And neither did my family members.


7 posted on 09/01/2025 5:56:22 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MA)
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Well you didn’t vote for him Mariner work on your own party figuring out what a woman is


8 posted on 09/01/2025 5:56:37 PM PDT by Lod881019
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(Didn’t he say last week that he misspoke that the 600,000 was two years of the current 300,000 per year and that wasn’t going to change. We were lied to twice. What is Trump getting out of this?)

This is concerning 😟

China has been Trump’s enemy for decades.


9 posted on 09/01/2025 5:57:02 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Mariner

It’s dry likely part of a much bigger deal he’s putting together. Compromises must be made. That’s my guess anyway.


10 posted on 09/01/2025 5:57:21 PM PDT by Mustangman
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Dpetty is an old dnc troll don’t even bother


11 posted on 09/01/2025 5:57:22 PM PDT by Lod881019
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President Trump has done many great and wonderful things, from the Border, Crime, mostly good on the tariff things, reducing the size of Gov...to many to name but he has done some really bad stuff...More good than bad but the bad has been doozies like this idea of letting in 600k Chinese...


12 posted on 09/01/2025 6:00:48 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Lod881019

I was mistaken.

Lod voted for this crap.


13 posted on 09/01/2025 6:02:22 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: over3Owithabrain

“ You and this site have become worthless. You know you guys have zero influence. Just a circle jerk of bitterness and stupidity.”
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Enjoy insulting FReepers and denigrating this forum? That’s not a good look. Just sayin’.


14 posted on 09/01/2025 6:03:08 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MA)
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Like i said your party needs to know what a generic woman is before you start arguing big boy stuff like this


15 posted on 09/01/2025 6:03:46 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: Mariner
We should have supported Jeb when we had a chance!


16 posted on 09/01/2025 6:04:26 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Not only do we need to import workers we need to import customers too? Seems rather unnecessary.
Colleges can lower their tuitions which are kept artificially high because of foreign money.


17 posted on 09/01/2025 6:04:33 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Ahh trying to disguise yourself again


18 posted on 09/01/2025 6:05:34 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: Lod881019

Don’t post to me again.


19 posted on 09/01/2025 6:07:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: dpetty121263

20 posted on 09/01/2025 6:08:14 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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