Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House for writing things he didn’t like. A federal judge told him that was unconstitutional. The White House kept barring reporters anyway. And while American journalists stood outside on the sidewalk, Chinese state media walked right in to cover Xi Jinping’s state dinner. The President of the United States gave a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party more access to his own house than the American press.
This is the same man who spent a decade calling China the greatest threat to American security. The same guy who slapped tariffs on everything with a Chinese shipping label. He’ll take your job to punish Beijing, but when the cameras roll, Xinhua gets a front-row seat and CNN gets the curb. The strongman act has a tell: it only works on his own people.