Trump Doubles Down on Importing Chinese Students to Save US Colleges — Despite MAGA Outcry

President Donald Trump doubled down on bringing Chinese students to U.S. colleges despite backlash among some MAGA supporters.

At a Tuesday White House cabinet meeting, Trump was asked for clarification on the country’s policy about student visas for Chinese students. The president promised 600,000 Chinese students would be admitted into the country on student visas. This is in spite of the fact that Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously promised to “aggressively” revoke visas of Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese Community Party.

“We’re getting along very well with China. And I’m getting along very well with President Xi Jinping. I think it’s very insulting to say, you — students can’t come here. Because they’ll go out and they’ll start building schools, and they will be able to survive it,” the president said.

According to Trump, U.S. colleges will “go to hell” without the importing of foreign students.

“I like that their students come here, I like it that other countries’ students come here — and you know what would happen if they didn’t? Our college system would go to hell very quickly,” he said. “You’d have — and it wouldn’t be the top colleges, it would be colleges that struggle on the bottom. And you take out 300,000 or 600,000 students out of the system, I like having — and I told this to President Xi — that we’re honored to have these students here.”

Trump’s position has split some loyal MAGA followers, including Laura Loomer, who claimed the “basic math” doesn’t add up next to Trump’s ongoing mass deportations.

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