COMMUNITY United States Politics Thread: Trump's Second Term



What a way to undercut American dominance in science research

Here are the grad students in Math at Harvard and Physics at Princeton.



As you can see, a large portion of the students are Chinese (though some may may be Korean).
 


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The FDA commissioner said that diabetics should get recipe books instead of insulin (Image: Getty)
The head of the Federal Drug Administration under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has claimed that diabetics should get a recipe book instead of insulin.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary appeared on Sunday Futures on Fox News to make these comments.
"Maybe we need to treat more diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at people," Makary, a COVID-19 vaccine skeptic, said.

President Donald Trump exploded at a reporter who asked him about the latest Wall Street nickname for his tariff chaos.
Trump responded angrily toward a reporter in the White House after she told him that Wall Street investors are using a new acronym, TACO, to describe the ongoing tariff turmoil caused by Trump. The acronym stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” and was reportedly coined by a Financial Times columnist.

“Wall Street analysts have coined a new term called the TACO trade. They’re saying Trump always chickens out on your tariff threats. And that’s why markets are higher this week. What’s your response to that?” a reporter asked Trump on Wednesday. Trump said he had never heard of the term before lashing out at the reporter.

“Is it because I reduced China from 145% that I set down to 100%? And then down to another number?” Trump responded. “And because I gave the European Union a 50% tax tariff? And they called up and they said, ‘Please, let’s meet right now, please, let’s meet right now.’ And I said, ‘OK, I’ll give you till June 9th.’”

“I actually asked them, I said, ‘What’s the date?’. Because they weren’t willing to meet. And after I did what I did, they said, ‘We’ll meet any time you want.’ And we have an end date of July 9th. You call that chickening out?” he added.

He continued by criticizing former President Joe Biden and saying that the country was “dying” under him before he exploded at a reporter.
“But don’t ever say what you said. That’s a nasty question. To me, that’s the nastiest question,” Trump said.
 

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday the United States will start "aggressively" revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
If applied to a broad segment of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese university students in the United States, the move could disrupt a major source of income for American schools and a crucial pipeline of talent for U.S. technology companies.

President Donald Trump's administration has sought to ramp up deportations and revoke student visas as part of wide-ranging efforts to fulfill its hardline immigration agenda.
In a statement, Rubio said the State Department will also revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from China and Hong Kong.
"The U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students," he said.
China's foreign ministry spokesperson in Beijing on Thursday condemned the move and said it had lodged protests with Washington, while Chinese students with offers from U.S. universities expressed despair at the crackdown.

The Chinese foreign ministry previously vowed to "firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests" of its students overseas, following the Trump administration's move to revoke Harvard University's ability to enroll foreign students, many of whom are Chinese.
China is also at the epicenter of Trump's global trade war that has roiled financial markets, upended supply chains and fueled risks of a sharp worldwide economic downturn. The decision to cancel Chinese student visas comes despite a recent pause in the U.S.-China trade dispute.
International students - India and China together accounting for 54% of them - contributed more than $50 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
 
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