President Donald Trump surprised many of his own supporters during a recent interview with Sean Hannity when he defended the presence of Chinese students at American universities — arguing that removing them would devastate higher education in the United States.
“I could tell them I don’t want any students. It’s a very insulting thing to say to a country. They would then immediately go out and start building universities all over China,” Trump told Hannity.
“If you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it,” he added.
BlazeTV host Pat Gray and executive producer Keith Malinak are among those supporters confused.
“We’re completely dependent on Chinese students,” Gray says in disbelief. “American universities would collapse without Chinese students. Come on.”
“What are you, Joe Biden? That’s something he would say. Or Barack Obama, not Donald Trump,” he adds.
“And so far,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in, “as the president is making his case, the two main points that he has offered to us is that it’s highly insulting and the schools might go bankrupt.”
“I’m not seeing the bigger picture here that the president is, clearly,” he adds.
“Clearly not true, for one thing,” Gray says.
“American universities will not collapse without 500,000 Chinese in them. That’s nonsense,” he continues. “This is a fairly new phenomenon to begin with. And secondly, 500,000 split between, what is it, 15,000 universities? How many do we have in the country? It’s not that many; you’re not going to lose that many students.”
Trump went on to claim that while the “top schools will do fine” without the influx of Chinese students, the “lower schools” would not be fine.
“I think it’s just the opposite of that,” Gray says. “It’s more like the Harvards and the Princetons that are going to do worse because how many Asian students are at those schools? They probably have the highest percentage.”
“They’re cutting back on their Asian students because they've got too many,” he adds.
To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
Democrats committed earlier this year to ideologically flipping the Georgia Supreme Court, where eight of the current nine justices are appointees of Republican governors, but they hit a major snag: Georgia voters.
Democrats' plan was to oust a pair of incumbents in the May 19 election, replace them with a pair of pro-abortion radicals, then, in 2028, similarly knock out the trio of GOP-appointed justices who will be facing re-election.
'The people of Georgia have made clear that they want to keep politics out of Georgia's courtrooms.'
Charlie Bailey, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia, said in April that his party was investing a historic sum in the campaigns of former Democrat state Sen. Jen Jordan and personal injury attorney Miracle Rankin, noting that "it's the most money that the Georgia Democratic Party has spent in judicial races in 20 years."
In addition to outside money, the liberal challengers enjoyed the support of outsiders, including pro-abortion groups and former President Barack Obama.
Obama, who endorsed both Jordan and Rankin, issued a reminder on Tuesday afternoon that "the decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives" and implored voters to "get this one right."
RELATED: Trump accuses Democrat governor of MASSIVE election fraud; officials say it was a printer error
Twice-failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris also weighed in from afar, telling Georgia voters to back Rankin and Jordan, whom she characterized as "extraordinary leaders."
Just as Democrats wasted millions of dollars on the unlawful, Obama-backed redistricting power-grab in Virginia — which the Old Dominion's Supreme Court torpedoed on May 8 — their court-flipping scheme in Georgia similarly proved to be a humiliating failure.
Georgia Supreme Court Justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel, the Republican-appointed incumbents whom Gov. Brian Kemp threw his support behind, handily crushed their Democrat-backed challengers.
With over 95% of the expected votes in, Warren secured over 350,000 votes more than Jordan, beating the former Democrat lawmaker 59.3% to 40.7%.
Warren said in a statement following her decisive victory, "Today, the people of Georgia have made clear that they want to keep politics out of Georgia's courtrooms. The Supreme Court of Georgia is a nonpartisan court by constitutional design, and I am thankful that it will stay that way."
Bethel, a former Republican state senator, had a closer race but still came out on top, taking 51.1% of the total vote.
Whereas his challenger, Rankin, demonstrated on the campaign trail that she was sensitive and receptive to the ideological fads of the day, Bethel made clear on the campaign trail that he remains "committed to following Georgia law without respect to my personal preferences or the popular sentiment of the day."
According to AdImpact, over $4 million was blown on ads across the two races.
Kemp congratulated the victors and stressed that "the Democrats are not going to take their foot off the gas heading into November, and neither will we. Keep Choppin'!"
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Former President Barack Obama joined other liberals earlier this year in championing an unlawful power-grab in Virginia that would have delivered to Democrats 10 of the state's 11 congressional districts, and now they have a new plan cooked up in Georgia.
To Democrats' chagrin, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled on May 8 that the costly gerrymandering scheme there was illegal, thereby preserving the 2021-era congressional maps in which Democrats and Republicans enjoyed a 6-5 split.
'It’s unfortunate the other side, backed by money that’s from outside the state ...'
On the eve of power-mad liberals' humiliating defeat in Virginia, Obama turned his gaze southward to another opportunity for a potential increase in Democrat power.
"State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important," wrote Obama. "Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin, the only two candidates in the race with strong records of standing up for all Georgians."
Eight of the Georgia Supreme Court's nine justices are presently appointees of Republican governors. Two GOP-appointed, conservative-backed justices — Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel — are, however, fighting for re-election on Tuesday, and another three GOP-appointed justices will face re-election in 2028.
RELATED: Perpetual victim Fani Willis cries RACISM and SEXISM again, this time over common-sense election law
Obama and other Democrats, unhumbled by their blunder in Virginia, appear keen to ideologically flip the Georgia court over the next two years.
As Obama indicated, Justice Warren is facing off on Tuesday against former Democrat state Sen. Jen Jordan, while Justice Bethel, a former Republican state senator, is facing off against Miracle Rankin, a personal injury attorney. Both of the Democrat-backed candidates are pro-abortion radicals who enjoy the backing of anti-natalist groups.
"This is the first time we've gone on offense, and we have raised a bit of money for it," Charlie Bailey, chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party, told CNN.
"It’s unfortunate the other side, backed by money that’s from outside the state, is trying to make a nonpartisan race political," said Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who is backing both Warren and Bethel. "That’s not how our judiciary works in our state. And I would urge people to vote for the incumbents. They have bipartisan support from people who really understand how important it is to have a nonpartisan judiciary."
Outside money and influence are hardly the only issue that has come up in this race.
A special committee within Georgia's Judicial Qualifications Commission revealed over the weekend that the Obama-endorsed candidates likely violated the state's Code of Judicial Conduct, reported the Georgia Recorder. Not only did Jordan and Rankin publicly endorse one another; they apparently conveyed that they would restore abortion rights — problematic because judges and judicial candidates are not allowed to make statements about issues likely to come before the court.
These damning accusations were suppressed, however, ahead of Election Day by Leslie Gardner, an Obama-appointed federal judge who is the sister of failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Gardener blocked the special committee from issuing its statement, claiming that the candidates' apparent abortion pledges were constitutionally protected and not explicit enough to constitute violations.
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
The $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is the first serious attempt in a generation to put a price tag on what the weaponization of justice has cost real people.
The goal of giving the government authority to impose labor terms on workers has always been to give more power to union officials.
FDA leadership retains an obligation to address regulatory deficiencies surrounding mifepristone to protect women.
www.theblaze.com
thefederalist.com
www.theblaze.com