Xi Spots the Mark—Weak T in China
The psychological reality is that Xi is in a very small group with Putin who Trump sees as superiors.
Weak T
On Tuesday, Donald Trump and a vast entourage of around 300 people landed in China—not to the extended hand of President Xi, but to his Vice President and a disturbing lineup of cheering kids—an obvious snub.
This official White House video of the arrival, directed by accused sexual predator Bret Ratner (“MELANIA”) who went along on the trip, is straight outta North Korea.
Many of the people Trump brought along were CEOs and top executives, an impressive line up of titans of industry, including this group, who have one other thing in common.
Nvidia Jensen Huang
Boeing Kelly Ortberg
Tesla/SpaceX Elon Musk
BlackRock Larry Fink
Meta Dina Powell McCormick
Goldman Sachs David Solomon
Blackstone Stephen Schwarzman
Citigroup Jane Fraser
Coherent Jim Anderson
GE Aerospace Larry Culp
Mastercard Michael Miebach
Micron Sanjay Mehrotra
Qualcomm Cristiano Amon
Apple Tim Cook
Visa Ryan McInerney
It turns out these are all companies that Donald Trump is personally invested in and actively traded during the first quarter of 2026—to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Here is a detailed analysis of Trump’s massive, professionally managed portfolio which almost perfectly overlaps with his decisions as president, apparently including who got to go to China.
It’s as if Trump had his stock broker book the trip.
The conflicts of interests in his portfolio, even to a jaded observer, are shocking. For example, on his trip, Donald Trump announced that China would be buying 200 jets from Boeing, a company whose bonds Trump bought in Q1 2026.
Another even more egregious example of Trump’s holdings is CoreWeave—a dedicated AI infrastructure company that hosts OpenAI’s chatbots. Trump bought junk bonds in CoreWeave in Q1 while they were struggling to pay their bills—right before Nvidia bailed them out.
This is insider trading, at the highest possible level. Full stop.
Trump’s investments are in perfect alignment with his own regime’s policies of domestic surveillance, AI accelerationism, and a massive military buildup. And they are perfectly timed.
For example, Trump bought Dell stock privately in Q1, and then said publicly “Go out and buy a Dell.”
It’s not just corruption being displayed by Trump’s profiteering from his decisions as president. It’s open corruption. These trades were filed late, but it’s a legal requirement that they be published.
Trump knew this information would come out, and did it anyway. He truly believes he is untouchable, that he can “shoot someone on Fifth Avenue” and get away with it. While grandiose delusions are a symptom of his overlapping pathologies, it’s unclear that he was wrong. There really seems to be no limit to his abuse of power.
Xi Spots the Mark
Trump, like most people in his party, has consistently used “communist” as an epithet to be aimed at any target to the left of Pat Buchanan. “Kommie Kamala” was a persistent meme in 2024. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is constantly smeared with the term.
Nevertheless, in China, a deferential Trump repeatedly called the dictator of the Chinese Communist Party his “friend” and a “great leader.” Xi never once returned the compliment, or spoke about Trump’s presidency. Trump was clearly the junior partner seeking approval—who brought along his sycophants and business buddies to try to “make a deal.”
But nothing really happened.
The psychological reality is that Xi is in a very small group with Putin who Trump sees as superiors. Trump’s core missing input as a child was the love of his father. Putin and Xi are emotional stand-ins for Fred Trump, the abusive racist who raised Donald to be a psychopath.
Dissolving Boundaries
Trump’s trip to China was an unprecedented bow down to communist China—and a nauseating display of weakness by a president. But it exposed much more than that. It showed that the boundaries we thought existed between corporate interests and the government were always illusions.
The trip was not just an indictment of the Trump regime. It was an indictment of the entire corporate, capitalist structure of the U.S. economy. The business leaders who traveled to China as baubles for the regime are just as guilty of deliberately smashing down the wall between government power and corporate profit as Trump.
Moreover, we have to accept that the business community is ambivalent about, if not outright hostile to constitutional democracy. The AI industry was born from a Silicon Valley primordial soup brewed in large part by Peter Thiel, who infamously said: “I no longer think freedom and democracy are compatible.”
The accelerationist, fascist broligarchy that seized control of the technology sector has thoroughly infected the whole economy. The obsessive meme that if we just make bigger data centers and better chatbots most of the labor force won’t be necessary is not just false; it is dangerous. What exactly will we do with all those “extra” people?
It is very clear that the economy is teetering on a bubble greater than anything in financial history. But so is our national morality. The very concept that we should care about each other, or that the government should put people first, is being attacked at scale by a psychopathology deliberately spread by elites.
It is, if you will, metastatic soul cancer.
If we’re prepared to watch our president and his harem of oligarchs steal from us in the open, and attack the very core of our humanity, what else are we prepared to watch? The boundaries being broken are not just political, or economic; they are the boundaries of common sense, and common decency.
When the smoke clears from this whole episode, we will have to recreate these boundaries, but much stronger and much thicker. If there is any silver lining to all this destruction, it’s that we may have one more chance to actually build back better.
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Brilliant title and analysis. Thanks for helping bring some clarity to this shameless hall of mirrors.
Outstanding synopsis you've written here today,Jim. This guy's been a shit heel since the 70 is, and I've never had any use for the bum. TGIF to you, here's hoping you have a great weekend, and will reStack ASAP 🙏