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- Trump Lashes Out with Random Biden Shot When Fox Anchor Says Xi ‘Liked’ His ...
Fox News anchor Bret Baier touched a nerve when he suggested to President Donald Trump that China’s President Xi Jinping “liked” his postition on arms sales to Taiwan, taking a random shot at former President Joe Biden in response. The president has just wrapped up a high-stakes trip to Beijing, China, where he was feted by and conferred with President Xi amid a blanket of pageantry and secrecy. The trip drew the attention of the world and concern over Trump’s statements about Taiwan. Baier scored an extensive sit-down with President Trump in Beijing, which aired on Friday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report. In one exchange, Baier pressed Trump about whether he will approve a pending arms sale to Taiwan, and suggested his indecision made Xi happy — drawing a shot at Biden: BAIER: Should the people of Taiwan feel more or less secure after your meetings with President Xi? TRUMP: Neutral. Neutral. This is the… (CROSSTALK) BAIER: Has the policy changed at all? TRUMP: No, nothing has changed. BAIER: U.S. policy. TRUMP: No, nothing has changed. I will say this. I’m not looking to have somebody go independent and, you know, we’re supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war. I’m not looking for that. I want them to cool down. I want China to cool down. BAIER: But you’re waiting on approving billions of dollars of weapons for Taiwan. TRUMP: That’s right, I… (CROSSTALK) BAIER: Is that moving forward? TRUMP: Well, I haven’t approved it yet. We’re going to see what happens. BAIER: What are you looking for? TRUMP: I may do it. I may not do it. BAIER: Yeah, what’s your — your hinge point? TRUMP: Well, I’m not going to say that. But I may do it, I may not do it. But we’re not looking to have wars. And we’re — if you kept it the way it is, I think China is going to be OK with that. But we’re not looking to have somebody say, let’s go independent because the United States is backing us, you know? BAIER: So President Xi probably liked that you haven’t approved the weapons to Taiwan? TRUMP: I would say like is maybe too strong a word because he thinks I could do it with just the signing of my signature, unlike Biden who couldn’t sign his signature. No, I’m holding that in abeyance. And it depends on… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Jen Psaki Hits Eric Trump with Receipts After Lawsuit ThreatMS NOW’s Jen Psaki hit back at Eric Trump after he threatened both her and her network with a lawsuit over what he called “blatant lies.” On Friday’s The Briefing, Psaki responded to Trump after he took to X to single out a clip from her show that he would sue over. He wrote: To be clear: Contrary to her monolog [sic] and blatant lies, I have NEVER been on the board of ALT5 — not now, not ever. Any person with basic access to Google and willing to open a company’s annual report or proxy statements would know this. I have had zero involvement in any merger discussions involving any public entity I do not run or control. I have zero business interests in China. No properties, no investments, nothing! I joined this trip for one reason: as a loving son who adores my father and wouldn’t miss being by his side for this incredible moment. During the bilateral talks [Lara Trump] and I went to the Great Wall of China. Psaki had covered Trump accompanying his father, President Donald Trump, to Beijing and cited a report on ALT5 Sigma Corp., a Las Vegas-based fintech company, currently working on a deal for chips in China. Eric Trump took issue with being described as a “board member,” though he was at one point listed as a board observer and advisor to the company. He’s also a co-founder of World Liberty Financial, which entered into a partnership with ALT5 in August. On Friday, Psaki pulled out video receipts in her response to the president’s son. She said: Today the adult son of the President of the United States, Eric Trump, came after us on social media and accused us of lying. You see, on Wednesday, we covered this story from the Financial Times, which reported that an AI company with ties to the Trump family crypto business was chasing a deal with a Chinese chip making company that members of Congress have warned, is connected to the Chinese Communist Party. Specifically, Eric took issue with us describing him as a member of the board of that AI company, a company called ALT5 Sigma. And in his tweet today, Eric says he has never, in all caps, I would note, been on the board of ALT5, not now, not ever, which is a little confusing, considering that this is how… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Fox’s Bret Baier Confonts Trump With Own Words on War: ‘You Did Say It Was G...Fox News anchor Bret Baier confronted President Donald Trump over his assurances that the Iran War would last four to six weeks, noting “you said it numerous times.” The president has just wrapped up a high-stakes trip to Beijing, China, where he was feted by and conferred with President Xi amid a blanket of pageantry and secrecy. The trip drew the attention of the world and concern over Trump’s statements about Taiwan. Baier scored an extensive sit-down with President Trump in Beijing, which aired on Friday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Special Report. Iran was also a topic that came up in Taiwan, and in Baier’s interview. He put Trump on the spot by noting “you did say it was going to be fairly quick”: BAIER: Hard to believe, but it was one year ago today in UAE, interviewed you. TRUMP: Yeah. BAIER: And I asked you about Iran. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BAIER: How do you get to a solution there? TRUMP: Oh, we’ll get it, 100 percent. BAIER: You think so. TRUMP: Well, we’re going to have a solution one way or the other. It’s either going to be violent or not violent. And I far prefer non-violent. (END VIDEO CLIP) BAIER: Obviously you’ve explained… TRUMP: By the way, perfect answer. BAIER: You — you’ve explained why you did what you did because of the nuclear threat for Iran. TRUMP: Yeah. BAIER: But… (CROSSTALK) TRUMP: No, Bret, Bret, they asked me… BAIER: It’s obviously not Venezuela, it’s different. TRUMP: Well, it’s different. But… BAIER: And but you did say it was going to be fairly quick and you said it numerous times. TRUMP: Here’s the difference. Venezuela was sending drugs in at a level that was terrible and they did something that was a terrible, mortal sin. They emptied their prisons into our country, OK? That was terrible. And that was different. This one is, I guess you could say worse. That was pretty bad. You don’t get much worse, emptying your prisons, drug dealers, murderers into our country. That’s pretty bad. But you could say this is worse. In this one, they are trying to make a nuclear weapon. I’ve stopped it twice. And they would have had it two years ago. They would have used it already on Israel and the rest of the Middle East. Look at all the missiles shot at people that didn’t think they were… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Bill Maher Destroys Trump Over China Trip: ‘They Served Orange Chicken’ Comedian and pundit Bill Maher hammered President Donald Trump over his trip to China with a barrage of jabs suggesting weakness in the face of China’s President Xi Jinping. On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Ben McKenzie, who wrote, directed, and produced the new documentary “Everyone is Lying to You for Money.” The panel guests were Dan Jones, historian, podcaster, and author of the forthcoming book “Castles: A Fortified History of the World from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age”; and David French, New York Times columnist, visiting professor at Lipscomb University, and co-host of the podcast “Advisory Opinions.” Maher devoted a large chunk of his monologue to Trump’s China trip, including the insinuation that the president perfomed like an “orange chicken”: BILL MAHER: I appreciate that. I know why you’re happy that the big summit in China went fantastic. No, Trump is on his way back right now. It’s late Friday afternoon in Los Angeles. He’s probably in the air, coming back to Andrews Air Force Base and relations with China. I can just tell they’re better now. I ordered takeout today. And the menu said, go ahead, make some substitution. Which you don’t often see on the menu. But honestly, Trump, he hates China, but he loves Xi. He loves President Xi. To say this was a love fest between these two guys is an understatement. As he left, Trump thanked Xi profusely for his hospitality, and Xi thanked Trump for making China way more popular around the world. It’s funny–. Our two countries have a lot of issues between them, but it seemed like in this big summit, there were mostly avoided, no demands, except you have to try these dumplings. That was the only… And, uh… No, you know what? China knows what Trump likes. What does he like? He likes the pump and the parades, and he likes the red carpet, and there were thousands of children waving American flags and… You know, and Xi, he’s clever, you know. He knows. He bargained like someone who knows he holds the cards now, ever since Trump backed down on their big trade war. In fact, as a subtle dig, they served orange chicken. S-subtle, the Chinese. Yeah, and Xi, Xi not holding back here, he said, we are a declining nation. Oh, and Trump, he said, you know, he doesn’t engage him like… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon
One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, equations were nowhere to be seen. He was controlling a monster in the midst of battle, casting magic spells to outduel an opposing player.“That’s not your math homework!” I told him. But it was. His fifth-grade-math teacher had told her students to spend time on Prodigy, a site that looks and feels like a video game. As my son indignantly showed me, Prodigy surfaces multiple-choice questions in between cartoon-monster attacks. Correctly identify an isosceles triangle or the square root of 49, and your “Aquadile” or “Bonasaur”—barely veiled rip-offs of Pokémon characters—gets a health boost that will help it fend off your opponent’s next salvo.Prodigy is among a bevy of gamified tools that have gained a foothold in classrooms across the country by promising to make learning fun. (As Prodigy’s website puts it: “Kids no longer have to choose between homework and playtime.”) These platforms—which also include Blooket, Gimkit, and Kahoot—can seem like a win-win. Students’ eyes light up at math-and-vocabulary-review sessions that once induced groans. Teachers, meanwhile, can use the games to track which questions kids get right and wrong, helping them triage trouble spots.But as I watched my son play Prodigy, it became clear there wasn’t much learning happening. In about 10 minutes of gameplay, he spent less than 30 seconds answering math questions. When he got one wrong, the game didn’t pause to diagnose where he went wrong or guide him to the correct answer. The only time he slowed down, grudgingly, was when Prodigy forced him to watch videos advertising its paid-membership plans. (Prodigy did not respond to a request for comment.)Other popular ed-tech games also lean into gaming more than learning. Gimkit lobs occasional multiple-choice questions in the middle of live, multiplayer games that closely resemble popular commercial titles such as Among Us and Only Up. Blooket offers a single-player game similar to Plants vs. Zombies that can be used as a homework assignment and others, such as Gold Quest, that are designed to be played live by a whole classroom. While parents and teachers fret over students’ watching MrBeast videos during social-studies class, schools have embraced education software that has become hard to distinguish from Candy Crush.Educational games have… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Did You Mean to Share That Selfie? What to Know About Instagram Instants.
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