President Trump is gearing up to hold Beijing to its existing trade commitments and replace illegal alien truckers with American veterans, putting U.S. workers ahead of Wall Street's globalist agenda.
While the establishment class traditionally uses summits to broker new deals that offshore American jobs, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says the upcoming September Trump-Xi summit will focus strictly on enforcing compliance—particularly on rare-earth restrictions—rather than offering more concessions. For the working class, this means verifying that China keeps its hands off materials vital to American manufacturing, a move the globalist class avoids because it threatens their offshore profits.
Bloomberg Tax News reported that Greer set modest expectations for the summit, emphasizing accountability over grand bargains. “It will be a moment for stock-taking, confirming the relationship, making sure China is complying with what it has agreed to do,” Greer said. “That’s really what we are looking forward to in this meeting.”
On the domestic front, Trump is moving to protect American workers from the consequences of open borders. At the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Trump announced a crackdown on "illegal alien truck drivers," according to the Mechanicsburg Patriot News. The move follows the death of Pennsylvania State Trooper Michael Pahira Jr., who was killed by Michael Bon—a Haitian refugee denied temporary protective status who was in the U.S. illegally. Rather than leaving the supply chain to illegal labor, Trump said his plan will offer automatic commercial driver’s licenses to any veterans with heavy truck experience from their tours of duty.
The summit, hosted by Sen. Dave McCormick at the U.S. Army War College, also served as a showcase for the defense industry's bottom line. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised Trump as a “builder-in-chief” unleashing a “generational investment” in the war-fighting apparatus “that our country has not seen since Ronald Reagan, and this one is bigger.” While defense contractors celebrated record profits, Trump kept the focus on the political stakes, warning that losing the midterms means writing off his policies. He also took a shot at Gov. Josh Shapiro, calling him "totally overrated," while backing GOP gubernatorial nominee Stacy Garrity.
On foreign policy, Trump touched on the hot war with Iran, stating, “We’ll find out whether or not we settle with them or we just finish it off.”
The open question is whether enforcement on trade and illegal labor can withstand the permanent Washington lobbying class, which profits endlessly from cheap foreign labor and endless foreign entanglements.
