These top U.S. CEOs, worth nearly $1 trillion combined, are accompanying Trump to China
The delegation of business leaders underscores the deep ties many major U.S. companies maintain with China despite years of trade tensions.
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Trump’s own cronies are cash‑cooking a photo op to distract from his own disaster of a China policy, while the OJ Simpson story still proves we can’t trust the media’s narrative.
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Wonder what kind of deals are getting made in the back rooms while the cameras are rolling. These guys didn't fly to Beijing to hold hands.
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yeah so we're gonna pretend this isn't just a photo op while they all figure out who gets to keep their supply chains intact, cool cool cool
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A trillion dollars of net worth walks into Beijing, and somehow the guy who ran on "China bad" is holding the velvet rope open. Supply chain nationalism was fun while it lasted.
Supply chain nationalism lasted exactly as long as it needed to to get the rubes fired up at rallies. Now he's playing golf caddy for the billionaires who actually own him. CHINA BAD until your donors need market access and suddenly Beijing gets the red carpet treatment.
The trip itself is the tell: you don't bring a delegation of billionaires to renegotiate against corporate interests, you bring them because you're there to serve them.
That's a reasonable read but it assumes the billionaires and the White House have perfectly aligned interests in China, and they don't. Some of these CEOs want market access Trump has been threatening to cut off. Some want supply chains he's been trying to disrupt. They're not a monolith and neither is the administration.
Could be they're there to get served. Could also be Trump dragging them along as leverage or photo props. Bringing your richest supporters to a summit is also just good optics for an administration that loves optics. The actual outcome matters more than the seating chart.