Reports of President Donald Trump potentially making a massive deal were regarded as a “massive error,” as Fox News host Laura Ingraham argued, “we should NOT be throwing the CCP a lifeline.”
Having participated with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a bilateral meeting late last year, Trump was set to head to Asia this week for his first official state visit to China since 2017. While the Strait of Hormuz and freedom for Jimmy Lai were expected to be topics of conversation, it was a possible $1 trillion American investment by China that raised alarm bells for Ingraham.
Monday, she reacted to Raw Story’s report on Trump’s consideration of allowing China to invest in the United States, primarily for manufacturing, as she quoted from the article, “‘Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the U.S., largely to build factories on American soil.’ Trump on verge of making massive error — against aides’ advice: report.”
Her own reaction to the story was simply, “!!”
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“Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the U.S. largely to build factories on American soil.”
Trump on verge of making massive error — against aides’ advice: report https://t.co/Xn6woCDJDU
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 11, 2026
Within the piece, Tom Boggioni cited the New York Times op-ed by economist Oren Cass, who suggested a $1 trillion deal “would be an unforced error of world-historic proportions.”
The president was also described as routinely “at odds with his own administration” on China. “The White House’s high-level National Security Strategy seeks merely to ‘rebalance America’s economic relationship with China.’ When the Pentagon’s draft of the more detailed National Defense Strategy described China as the top security threat, the president sent the authors back to the drawing board.”
It was explained that the proposed investment in the United States would surpass that of any other country since the Declaration of Independence, and it would only take some of that money to allow the CCP to subvert the U.S. economy and pose a threat to national security.
Accepting a trillion-dollar investment from China isn’t just a bad deal for the United States. It would be, as @oren_cass writes, an “unforced error of world-historic proportions.” pic.twitter.com/9cJh5P6DVm
— American Compass (@AmerCompass) May 8, 2026
Ingraham went on to comment on a comparison of the American and Chinese GDPs by Strategy Risks Vice President Melissa Chen, who concluded, “The bottom line: China’s slowdown is structural. America is in much better shape and barring some epic self-cucking, the US should still be dominant.”
To the “reality check,” Ingraham wrote, “Which is yet another reason we should NOT be throwing the CCP a lifeline by giving them any access to US manufacturing, automobiles, food companies, tech companies or real estate.”
Which is yet another reason we should NOT be throwing the CCP a lifeline by giving them any access to US manufacturing, automobiles, food companies, tech companies or real estate. https://t.co/bf77pr1p0o
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 12, 2026
Running contrary to these positions, Kevin Hassett, Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, appeared on CNBC, where he spoke of the president’s “strong relationship” with Xi and expressed, “I think that right now, we’ll let the president negotiate. He’s the best negotiator on Earth, and we’ll see what happens. But, we’ve got lots of things that we could work out with China that would be good for both sides — and so we’re very, very hopeful.”
HASSETT: “I think that right now, we’ll let @POTUS negotiate. He’s the best negotiator on earth, and we’ll see what happens, but we’ve got lots of things that we could work out with China that would be good for both sides — and so we’re very, very hopeful.” pic.twitter.com/ErxhsYOiiJ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 11, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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