Mid-Day Update： October 30, 2025
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Summary
Trump meets with China's communist dictator Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea. China agrees to lift restrictions on exports of soybeans and other foreign products to the United States. President Trump also announces that the Department of Defense will begin testing nuclear weapons.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Thursday,
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Earlier today, President Trump met with China's communist dictator Xi Jinping in Busan, South
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Korea, for talks that were focused heavily on lifting recent restrictions and tariffs
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Following the meeting that President Trump described in a statement as truly great, the
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two sides confirmed that China would lift restrictions on exporting rare earth and critical
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minerals, which Beijing has imposed in response to tariffs on its goods.
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The restrictions would be paused for a year, potentially returning if Beijing and Washington
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But President Trump appeared positive about restrictions not returning during his remarks
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on Air Force One while en route back to America.
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President Trump also speaking to the media on Air Force One saying tremendous amounts of
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soybeans and other foreign products are going to be purchased immediately by China.
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Take a listen to President Trump on his meeting with Xi Jinping.
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A leader of a very powerful, very strong country, China.
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We have, it was an outstanding group of decisions I think that was made.
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And we've come to conclusion on many, very important points.
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And we'll be handing that to you in a little while.
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You know, we're having, because there's a lot of, a lot of different things.
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President Trump is set to meet again with Xi Jinping.
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He says in April, either in Washington, D.C. or in Florida, I would assume at Mar-a-Lago,
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President Trump also going to reciprocate with a trip to China somewhere around that time.
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President Trump, when speaking to the media, also says that they discussed Ukraine and that
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China is going to help the United States and Russia and Ukraine try to come together on an agreement,
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And we're both going to work together to see if we can get something done.
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We agree that the sides are, you know, locked in and fighting.
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And sometimes you have to let them fight, I guess.
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But he's going to help us, and we're going to work together on Ukraine.
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You know, he's been buying oil from Russia for a long time.
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And, you know, I can say India's been very good on that front.
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We discussed working together to see if we could get that war finished.
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I'd like to see 6,000, 7,000, 8,000 young people, mostly young people, for the most part soldiers, be killed.
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Just hours before President Trump met with Xi Jinping,
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President Trump announced Wednesday night from South Korea that he has ordered the Department of War
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to, quote, immediately start testing nuclear weapons,
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something the United States has not done since 1992, the end of the Cold War.
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Trump's statement came just an hour before I said he was scheduled to meet with President Xi Jinping in South Korea,
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also after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the successful test of two nuclear-powered,
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nuclear-capable weapons systems, a cruise missile and an underwater drone.
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But if push comes to shove, he's going to have to be the president of war and keep the rest of the world in check.
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And the rhinos in the Senate just can't get their acts together, folks.
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I don't know what their deal is, what the problem is.
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30 days, day 30 now, the government shut down, the Chuck Schumer shut down.
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And you would think that the Republicans in the Senate and the House would let the Marxist Dems implode on themselves.
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Last night, the Senate voted to nuke President Trump's, no pun intended, by the way,
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This is the second time this year that the Senate has voted to repeal President Trump's tariffs on Canada.
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Now, the problem here, the Republicans, well, four rhinos, we'll call them,
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Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins,
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the four rhinos, House Speaker Mike Johnson will not hold a vote on the measure.
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And to show who the rhinos are, President Trump never would sign that measure into law anyway.
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President Trump on Saturday increased tariffs on Canada by 10 percent of what they're now paying
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after the government of Ontario played that deceptive Ronald Reagan ad during the World Series.
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Canada then came out and said they were going to look to or the prime minister of Canada rather came out and said
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they're going to look to Asia to replace America.
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Well, good luck. There's a little bit of water in between the two countries.
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Six p.m. Eastern time for The Great America Show.
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