Subject: Selling National Security for Corporate Profits
The United States spends more than $800 Billion a year to keep America and Americans safe but Mad King Donald has used his deal-making expertise to rake in a billion or two from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, two companies expected to pay the United States 15 percent of the money they take in from selling artificial intelligence chips to China.

Umm, weren't A.I. chip sales to China previously banned by the federal government for national security and other reasons?

The deal to license A.I. chips caused immediate outcry among national security experts who have been opposed to A.I. chip sales to China. They worry that the Trump administration’s decision to leverage export licenses for money will encourage Beijing to pressure other companies to make similar arrangements to loosen restrictions on other technology like semiconductor manufacturing tools and memory chips.

“This is an own goal and will incentivize the Chinese to up their game and pressure the administration for more concessions,” said Liza Tobin, who previously served as China director at the National Security Council during the Trump and Biden administrations. “This is the Trump playbook applied in exactly the wrong domain. You’re selling our national security for corporate profits.”

So what'dya call this: communism, socialism, fascism, or taxes?

Man, o, man, if you had a playbook for destroying America and American democracy, it would mirror the Trump administration's actions in these first six months to a T.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/0...