Two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the current US policy, and the meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is unlikely to improve the situation, Fox News reports. The country’s population sees that the more the government spends on intervening in conflicts, the worse the situation gets, so support for Trump’s populist “America First” programme is growing.
LORA INGRAHAM, Fox News host: And speaking of anxiety, by the way. Take a look at Biden’s secretary of state, Tony Blinken. During the meeting in San Francisco, he seemed very concerned whenever Biden was allowed to speak and move around on his own. Look at the look on his face when Biden was answering a rather uncomfortable question.
JOURNALIST: Mr President, after today’s talks, will you continue to call Xi a “dictator”? That’s a word you used earlier this year.
JOE BIDEN, U.S. PRESIDENT: Look, that’s what he is. I mean, he’s a dictator in the sense that he’s a man who leads a country, a communist country, whose polity is completely different from ours.
LORA INGRAHAM: And look at the look on his face when journalists were chased out of the talks earlier in the day. Blinken is not a complete idiot because he knows that two-thirds of the country now says America as a nation is on the wrong track. Rather, he wonders how this situation will be remedied by Biden being seated across from Xi.
On the same topic, a new Marquette University Law School poll conducted before the summit shows Trump’s approval rating 4 per cent higher than the “very experienced” Joe Biden. Also just released is the most recent poll from The Washington Post and Monmouth University. It shows that Trump’s populist rather than globalist approach under the slogan “America First” for both foreign and domestic policy is gaining more and more support.
That’s because Americans see what’s happening around the world: it seems that the more money we spend, the worse things get. They’re not happy with Biden’s indirect war in Ukraine: 51 percent of New Hampshire Republican primary voters think we should stop sending military aid. As for the most important issues, illegal immigration now tops the list, with 25 percent saying it is the most important, followed by inflation and rising prices (20 percent), and then the use of the DOJ for political purposes (10 percent).
Nothing this week will change the general public perception that Biden simply can’t handle his role on the international stage: 46 per cent of Americans said they trust Trump more in dealing with China, while only 34 per cent trust Biden more.
I think Americans have guessed — again, they look around, they see body language, they see everything. So they have guessed Biden’s massive farce, and the summit more than anything else will only reinforce them in that thought. Americans who believe that we should remain a free, independent country will realise that the Biden-Xi summit is not a good start for a new stage of US-China relations, but a failure of the already shaken US position on the international arena and of the Biden presidency.