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Day: June 9, 2025

Trump’s 21st week back in office set to include China trade talks, LA riot control, sweeping travel ban

Trump’s 21st week back in office set to include China trade talks, LA riot control, sweeping travel ban

President Donald Trump and his administration are expected to have a whirlwind 21st week back in the White House, including holding high-stakes trade talks with China in London on Monday and continuing efforts to quell wild riots in California targeting federal immigration officials.  Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Ambassador Jamieson Greer will head to London on Monday to continue trade talks with China after both nations installed tit-for-tat duty taxes on one another.  DONALD TRUMP DETAILS ‘MOST EXCITING PART’ OF CHINA TRADE AGREEMENT “I am pleased to announce that Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, will be meeting in London on Monday, June 9, 2025, with Representatives of China, with reference to the Trade Deal. The meeting should go very well. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump posted. The planned meeting comes after Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday to discuss trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing. “I just concluded a very good phone call with President Xi, of China, discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made, and agreed to, Trade Deal,” Trump said Thursday in a Truth Social post. “The call lasted approximately one and a half hours, and resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries.” TRUMP ANNOUNCES CHINA WILL RESTART RARE EARTH MINERAL SHIPMENTS TO US AFTER PRODUCTIVE CALL Trump said the conversation focused “almost entirely” on trade and that Xi invited the U.S. president and first lady Melania Trump to visit China. Likewise, Trump reciprocated and invited Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, to visit the U.S. The Trump administration leveled tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods following the president’s reciprocal tariff plans in April, when China retaliated against the U.S. with tariffs of its own. China and the U.S. reached a preliminary trade agreement last month, which Trump said China violated in a Truth Social post at the end of May.   Trump signed a proclamation on Wednesday banning people from 12 foreign nations from traveling to the U.S., and imposing travel restrictions on seven other nations, as part of a crackdown on “dangerous foreign actors that want to come to our country and cause us harm,” according to the White House.  The travel ban takes effect on Monday.  The ban will completely bar travelers from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. CRITICS HAVE MELTDOWN AND ACCUSE TRUMP OF IMPOSING RENEWED ‘MUSLIM BAN’ THROUGH ‘DISGUSTING’ TRAVEL ORDER Seven other countries face partial travel restrictions, including Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. “The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas,” Trump said in a video posted Wednesday on social media. “We don’t want them.”  “In the 21st century, we’ve seen one terror attack after another carried out by foreign visa overstayers from dangerous places all over the world,” he added. “Thanks to Biden’s open-door policies, today there are millions and millions of these illegals who should not be in our country.” TRUMP TRAVEL BAN 2.0 IS BUILT TO SURVIVE COURT CHALLENGES, EXPERTS SAY Officials charged Mohamed Sabry Soliman last Monday with a hate crime, attempted first-degree murder, crimes against at-risk adults/elderly and other charges after he allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel group, Run for Their Lives, in a Boulder park last Sunday. The Egyptian national was living in the U.S. illegally after entering on a work visa two years ago that has since expired, according to federal officials. Trump’s travel restriction announcement sparked widespread backlash among Democrat lawmakers and critics on social media, who slammed Trump for allegedly promoting Islamophobia. Riots broke out in Los Angeles over the weekend as federal immigration officials converged on the left-wing city to carry out immigration raids as part of Trump’s campaign promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants who flooded into the nation under the Biden administration.  Violent protesters took to the streets and were seen throwing rocks and other materials at federal law enforcement officials, as well as setting cars on fire and looting local stores, in protest of the raids.  NEWSOM’S OFFICE COMPARES LA RIOTS AGAINST FEDERAL AGENTS TO SPORTS CELEBRATIONS Trump sent 2,000 National Guard soldiers to L.A. early Sunday to help restore order as immigration protests turned into riots, queuing up a week that will likely include fireworks from Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has repeatedly defended illegal immigrants amid the raids.  “Great job by the National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence, clashes and unrest,” Trump posted to Truth Social early Sunday morning. “We have an incompetent Governor (Newscum) and Mayor (Bass) who were, as usual (just look at how they handled the fires, and now their VERY SLOW PERMITTING disaster. Federal permitting is complete!), unable to to handle the task. These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED. Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why??? Again, thank you to the National Guard for a job well done!” Newsom on Friday described the Trump administration’s immigration raids in Los Angeles as “chaotic and reckless.” “Continued chaotic federal sweeps, across California, to meet an arbitrary arrest quota are as reckless as they are cruel. Donald Trump’s chaos is eroding trust, tearing families apart, and undermining the workers and industries that power America’s economy,” Newsom’s statement read.  The press office doubled down in support of shielding illegal immigrants from deportation in a response X post to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Saturday.  “In recent days, violent mobs have attacked