Saturday Afternoon News Updates: How Trump Surrendered in China — 5/16/26
MUST WATCH SCOTT MACFARLANE NEWS! THANK YOU JAMIE RASKIN! JAN 6 HEROES! Saturday Afternoon News Updates: How Trump Surrendered in China — 5/16/26 Trump returned from Beijing humiliated, while Americans inch closer to $7-a-pound ground beef and can't afford to fill their tanks. Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network May 16 ∙ Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a meeting on the sidelines of their visit to the Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing, China, May 15, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/Pool Hi all, Ben here. It’s Saturday, and what a week it has been. Let me get you caught up on everything we’re tracking right now, because there is a lot. Here are the top stories: Trump’s China trip is being widely panned as a strategic humiliation — Xi played him like a fiddle Taiwan pushes back hard after Trump essentially threw them under the bus in Beijing Iran doubles down on Strait of Hormuz con...