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Trump's clear message: The USA is now betraying Taiwan as well. China is a very, very powerful, large country, and Taiwan is a tiny island—as far as their respective chances are concerned. — Trump Further statements by the US President: If you look at history: Taiwan developed the way it did only because we had presidents who had no idea what they were doing. They basically stole our chip industry from us. Anyone manufacturing chips in Taiwan should relocate to the USA. The Chinese do not want to see this place—let’s just call it a place, because no one knows how to define it—as independent. I don’t want anyone to become independent. Do we really have to travel 15,000 kilometers to fight a war? I don’t want that.

We all know who and what Xi is, and what he is doing.  Of course, POTUS knows better than the rest of us.  He has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget, which must be a priority.  Our problem is the Democrat Party and its leadership in Congress, which is giving aid and comfort not only to Iran, but China as well.  And it, along with RINO Republicans and isolationists, are the obstacle to properly funding a nation's security against China and all other serious threats.

UPDATE FROM THE DISCOVERY WINDOW I am the Head of Product at Trump Mobile. It has been 74 hours since the first deliveries. The discovery window is closed. I am writing this from a conference room that my SVP of Customer Expectations has renamed THE ROOM WHERE COMPARISONS HAPPEN. Here is what happened in 74 hours. Hour 3: A man in Pensacola posted an unboxing video. He held the phone up to the camera. He said "this is beautiful." He said "Trump did it again." He did not turn it on. The video has 240,000 views. This is the best possible outcome. An unboxing that never reaches the home screen. A review that stops at the object. We call this "flag-layer engagement." He reviewed the flag. The flag passed. Hour 11: A man in Ohio turned his on. He said the setup took forty minutes. He said Google kept asking him to sign in. He did not understand why a Trump phone required a Google account. He called our support line. We do not have a support line. We have a landing page that says "exciting update." He found this page. He left. Hour 22: The first YouTube benchmark test went live. A creator I will not name ran Geekbench 6. The T1 scored 1,047 single-core. 2,891 multi-core. For reference, the Samsung Galaxy A55 scores 1,094 and 2,972 on the same test. Our phone lost to a $300 Samsung on a public benchmark in front of 190,000 people. He then ran the same benchmark on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 Pro. The Xiaomi won. The Xiaomi costs $220 on AliExpress. He showed both prices on screen, side by side. The flag was not on screen. Hour 36: The VP of Customer Expectations showed me the graph. The first wave of "Trump T1 phone vs" searches began. Google autocomplete now suggests: "Trump T1 phone vs Samsung A55." "Trump T1 phone vs OnePlus Nord." "Trump T1 phone specs." "Trump T1 phone return policy." She said the discovery delay metric had collapsed from 72 hours to 36 hours for the second delivery cohort. The first cohort told the second cohort. Discovery is now viral. It is spreading faster than we can ship. Hour 48: Someone on Reddit posted our bill of materials. They sourced every component on Alibaba and totaled the cost. The total was $127. With the Miami assembly and packaging, they estimated unit cost at $164. We charge $499. They put "patriotism markup: $335" in the title. The post has 12,000 upvotes. I bookmarked it next to the GSMArena article. Hour 61: The first return request came in. The customer cited "buyer's remorse." He said the phone worked fine. He said it did everything a phone should do. He said he was returning it because he realized he already had a phone that did the same things and it cost $200 less and did not have a flag on it. He wanted his money back. Not the $499. The original $100 deposit. Both. He wants both back. Hour 72: My SVP drew a new graph. Two lines. One is returns. One is deliveries. They have not crossed yet. But I have seen two lines cross before. I know what it looks like three days before they meet. I promoted her again. She is now C-suite. Chief Officer of the Discovery Window. Her entire job is to find ways to slow down the second line. She suggested we stop shipping for a week and call it a "quality hold." I said that is the most American sentence anyone has ever spoken in this building. We implemented it within the hour. Here is what I have learned in 74 hours: The phone was not a product. It was an IOU we accidentally fulfilled. The moment it became physical, it became comparable. The moment it became comparable, the $199 flag premium became visible. The moment the premium became visible, the deposit page became a historical document. Version 4.1 continues to degrade. The patch is shipping tomorrow. The patch is called "quality hold."

The SAVE Act is not going to be passed and you can thank John Thune and his pack of Trump hating "Republican" senators for this