Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made the legacy media rounds Sunday saying that he and his Chinese negotiating counterpart had reached an agreement on export controls for rare earth minerals, that would lead to the United States not imposing 100 percent tariffs on China.
Secretary Bessent said that trade negotiations with China had been very productive. The plan was to create a deal for President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping this week in South Korea. However, NBC’s Kirsten Welker was not prepared for Bessent to make a positive announcement about U.S-China trade negotiations.
Because the script in front of her did not factor in the announcement by Bessent, what you see is Secretary Bessent breaking news about a U.S-China trade agreement, but Welker’s pre-scripted follow up questions didn’t align with that news. Welker ends up asking about tariffs and rare earth minerals, after Bessent says a deal to avoid tariffs and retain rare earth mineral access was developed.
Welker then continues asking about U.S-China trade conflicts until Bessent makes the point of saying something akin to ‘can you not hear me, the trade friction is resolved.’ Welker is then forced to abandon her script and ask about Canada. WATCH:
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https://x.com/shanaka86/status/1982400940998279673
Do not put up a link with no description as to what it pertains too.
“pertains to”… lol
Boys, boys, boys; settle down now.
…to which it pertains.
Thanks. My experience in the past is a preview posts after posting the link.
Change x to “twitter” to show the preview.
This is my President.
Awesome.
What 4-dimensional chess looks like!
Our Very Stable Genius and his team knocked this out of the park! We didn’t go half a world away to lose.
Subject: Globalization didn’t collapse. It was conquered. (By the our genius President Donald J. Trump.)
I’m exhausted after reading that. 😲
Hah. At least you read it! 👍
I did too and it *was* a bit tricky to wade through AND absorb….😵💫
(Most won’t even try…)
“OCTOBER 26, 2025: THE DAY AMERICA BECAME AN EMPIRE
While you watched TikTok, the United States just executed the greatest economic coup in human history.
China controls 80% of rare earth processing—the neurons of every weapon system, smartphone, and AI server on planet Earth. One element: neodymium. Without it, F-35s don’t fly. Teslas don’t move. Data centers go dark.
Trump threatened to destroy $300 billion in Chinese exports with 100% tariffs.
Beijing responded by threatening to choke the global technology supply chain.
Then something impossible happened.
THE 72-HOUR CHECKMATE:”
Thanks for posting… Wow…
Empire building my a.s. More like clawing back safety and productive opportunity from a communist institution trying to control the trash dump they have created with substandard products.. I’m Tired of everything about Chinese products in our landfills .. when was the last time you bought anything made in China that product life expectancy is more than two years if you use the time.?
That GE refrigerator in my parents pantry. lol
I made it to 2:35 and began to feel embarrassed for Welker.
Her smarmy demeanor evaporated by the second deadpan response by Mr. Bessent, who certainly “has those minerals”..
It’s obvious whoever wrote her script doesn’t care that they’ve set her up to look ignorant. Of course she’s to dumb to know how pathetic she actually looks
Whoever wrote her script is probably just as ignorant.
Making 1 tenth of what Welker is getting paid to read it, and doesn’t care if it makes Welker look like the idiot she truly is when she doesn’t know how to free lance a question/response when she has no clue about the intellect that Mr. Bessent possesses. He makes all the overpaid fluffs for all the networks look small when he speaks and smiles while deadpanning the news he receives.
I thought I read once that he’s a billionaire.
And in BIG trouble. Probably received a noisy tongue lashing.
To be fair how many everyday people are as smart as Scott Bessent? Donald Trump hires only the best and brightest, while media people are hired for ahem, other qualities.
what was Kristin Belken hired for? she certainly isnt pretty
How many of those writing the script, are over 30-35 years old???
In other words – do they know Anything???
About anything????
(What’s the average age of
‘newsroom staff’ at msm networks? – 25, 30????)
With DEI more than likely the clown that wrote the script is as dumb as she is.
Grok.
She looks demented. If I saw her in a public place, I’d make an effort to get away from her.
Every time I see her I feel the exactly same way. She is obviously a phycho.
It got worse for her. She “cherry picked” three food items that had increased in price. The first one was coffee. Coffee prices have been going up for some time now. They have been warning for several years about coffee going up. Chocolate also.
Bessent told her like 3 times you don’t get to cherry pick. Her script was destroyed.
<Bessent told her like 3 times you don’t get to cherry pick.>
But if she wants to do that…
Cherry prices are down 4% since mid-August 🙂
“Do you not hear me?” Well done, Secretary Bessent!
As she continues to ask her prewritten questions, oblivious.
No Country For Old Men
With Welker on NBC, Raddatz on ABC, Miss Florida on Fox, and the CBS (Constipated Brennan Sunday) show – 4 for 4 – it isn’t indeed.
NBC’s Welker was a huge confusing element as Secretary Bessent was crystal clear in what he was saying. Most of these MSM “reporters” are grossly incompetent compared to the Secretaries of this Administration! They are so obviously trying to twist and obfuscate Administation’s message that they appear slow!
It’s like the socialists are hoping that Xi will treat PDJT47 like he did Biden, which is a massive mistake.
the Chicoms pantsed Blinken publicly then stuffed him his locker at their first meeting.
I like how she gets “wide eyes” when she’s about to ask a question
My GOSH!!!!
The woman isn’t listening!!
How many times does he have to say to her 100% tariffs are off the table…
She can only read what is on the teleprompter, not think for herself.
I think this lady needs a transcript option like Marge Brennon- the voice is awful.
I would never double a fist and hit a woman.
But…
I know your better self, dear ERROR….
All the same…😎
“Legacy” media=CIA Operation Mockingbird run, Council On Foreign Relations managed “Fake News” as our President Donald J Trump stamped them with. If you don’t want to call them Mockingbird media, call them Fake News like our President & Statesman PDJT does. They have a “legacy” of lying………………………
Operation Mockingbird: The CIA’s Media Manipulation Program
It should end with “she had to abandoned the ship”, not script. lol
I don’t mean to nitpick.
But I keep seeing this odd use of a past tense instead of a present tense verb in many online comments.
It is not an isolated occurrence.
Is it an Autocorrect error?
And, yes.
She did have to abandon the ship.
Propagandists don’t think so good on their feet. Can’t poll test “words that work” narrative framing in real time. Fail.
What’s sad is my mother in law believes all the lying media. I can’t talk sense into her, she’s brainwashed.
Don’t bother. Best thing, and it may not work, is to ask her questions, especially obvious ones that may get her to question her, “reality”.
Good luck!
“What’s sad is my mother in law believes all the lying media. I can’t talk sense into her, she’s brainwashed.”
Mine is as well. However she is in her late 80’s and so my husband just lets her repeat the lying talking points without correcting her. I find it frustrating but understand his position. She grew up in an era where TV news was considered completely trustworthy and will never question it. Personally I want to refute the worst of the lies.
“She grew up in an era where TV news was considered completely trustworthy….she is in her late 80’s”
I was born in 1944. Television did not come into our farm households in eastern Montana until the magic of the microwave towers began to throw the signal from one point to the next in the late 1950s. I had parents who had done their own thinking, voluminous reading, and significant writing (each with an 8th grade education) long before electricity came to our farm.
I have not had any of the alphabet news channels on in my house for over thirty-five years. OFF is the default of my tv.
Age is not a valid excuse for the unwillingness to think, and should not be accepted as one.
It is very hard to get people over age 60 to become a born again Christian. They have to admit on some level, that their previous years were lived ‘in vain’.
Ditto; thank you. I had the same childhood life style. No running water or electricity on our very rural northern Minnesota farm.
You’re welcome, Littledickens. It was a good life. You might enjoy the personal and family memories I wrote down, published in 2013 under the title Mailboxes and Old Barns. You can get a taste of those stories in essay form here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/category/mailboxes-old-barns/
and here:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/category/mailboxes-and-old-barns-essays/
When the entire blog had to be transferred to new foundations a few years ago, Sundance was so kind to include that material which I wrote on a weekly basis for 3-4 years, I guess it was. I think some of the links/graphics/comments did not hang on for the transition…. but since you lived it, you will recognize it!!
I’m in that age bracket also and have the good sense to read a variety of different view points.
Do better NBC!
Never stop the enemy when they are making a mistake.
How does this lunatic woman make it in the real world. I guess you can’t fix stupid.
Same way Kamala made it I’d guess.
I need some eye bleach now
She doesn’t live in the “real world.” Kirsten Welker lives in a fantasy land where you can change truth and reality simply by pretending and wishing.
Just like all of her “neighbors” in Pretend World, she has the same maturity, intellectual capacity and connection to reality as a three year old. She’s quite comfortable in Pretend World.
If you can make yourself believe a biological male can become a woman, then lets face it, the sky’s the limit.
As we discuss during the hardware store Saturday socials. Should have gone to meteorologist school, where we can get paid to be on the TV and wrong all of the time. lol Who knew!
Most of the network interviewers do it, but Welker is Queen of the non sequitur follow-up question. However, nobody makes the scripted nature of the entire event more obvious than she does.
These media/actors/gaslighters are going to meltdown on air soon and harm themselves. They’re really working under duress and conflict
Let’s hope
🤣 🤣 🤣
Propaganda nozzle media! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m ready for my
close upcomeuppance Mr.DeMilleBessent.Well done! But Gloria was less demented in that roll than Kristen is in hers!
You cannot hate MSM enough.
It’s laughably obvious that these fake news mandarins have no intention of having a conversation/interview with anyone from the Trump administration. They don’t even have the common decency to listen to who they are babbling at. Just read the script like an ai answering service. They be-clown themselves and it’s hard to believe they don’t see that.
It’s so hard when Trump stats so far ahead of these morons.
I just watched both Raddatz and Welker. They’re so hostile in their demeanor and you’d think the sky is falling. It’s like listening to finger nails scratching a black board.
Is Welker wearing her Prince (the singer) Halloween outfit?
She needs more ruffles and the signature beauty mark.
MAGA!
Ukraine has rare earths in land Russia currently occupies.
About 40% of Ukraine’s metallic mineral resources are currently under Russian occupation.
Russia invaded Russia.
Nazis and all.
She is a card carrying member of the enema media.
“Will we use our new atomic weapons?”
“Japan just surrendered, Kirsten.”
“How many ships will take part in the invasion?”
“Didn’t you hear me? I said Japan just surrendered.”
“Yes, but how many casualties can we expect?”
Hahahahaha
NBC should hide in shame after presenting such an awful load of crap. If this is the work of journalism, then we should be developing a vaccination for it.
They are incapable of shame.
She’s trash.
That Welker is one scary looking dude with the Sanpaku eyes.
Why doesn’t she add now I gotcha after each question.
Beset says he is a soybean farmer! No conflict of interest? Not for some!!
Kristin Welker is a one-trick pony: ask the question and don’t listen for the answer.
POS.
This is what my kids tend to call “Butthurt”! 😂
At 14:10 the she beast reveals it’s true form as a nasty self loathing grrrrranimal. Who hires these hideous creatures?
Let’s wait until President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping meet this Thursday in South Korea, as close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Doesn’t matter who’s reading them, NBC’s Kristen Welker, CBS’s Margaret Brennan and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos are all regurgitating the same anti-Trump, anti-MAGA, pro globalist, pro Democrat talking points, straight out of the DNC playbook.
Trump officials like Secretary Bessent keep appearing on these shows to break the stranglehold the alphabet soup news networks have on the narratives they choose for the American people see and hear…but it’s a bit tiring to hear Welker, who pushed the phony Trump/Russian collusion narrative for years, stare blankly into the cameras and pretend that she is a credible journalist.
I mean that’s a narrative unto itself!
Personally I wouldn’t waste 1 hot second with these networks and instead work hard on yanking their license. There isn’t going to be any changes with them…..let’s move on and establish a new network of reliable journalism. How refreshing that would be.
I can’t believe I actually watched that interview (being kind), instead of just reading the transcript, which is what I do normally. Mr. Bessent had the “patience of Job” putting up with Witch Welker. Welker’s confrontational attitude was beyond rude.
Secretary Bessent is happy he’s half a world away.
A very patient man. I wanted to punch a hole in my iPad.
The Shaming Of The Shrew.
Put that elf back on her shelf!
Where was this witch when her hero Biden was doing his killing of millions of chickens and making fertilizer shortages. What a propagandist!
Our President is also squeezing China’s Drug and Child Trafficking in Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.
Praise God!
IMESHO, those from Trump’s Administration deserve so much credit for appearing on programs from nbc, abc, and cbs with moderators that are not knowledgeable enough to understand the details involved in the negotiations.
Insufferable…..
I wonder if I could use Kristen’s teeth whitener on my partial.
Maybe I’ll contact her pr dept. to see what brand she uses.
Sooo used to following a script.
That’s what actors and actresses do.
Reporters – ‘journalists’ are supposed to be able to think on their feet.
I think we know what category most of these media ‘journalists’ fall under.
(I also believe that the talking heads are NOT allowed much – if any – variation from the approved script – most likely put together at a meeting the day before).
They should call her show, Meet the Distressed!
She is exhausting.
Just the pic her her and him side by side. She really has a sick look in her eyes.