The "Waffler-in-Chief"....I mean our "Commander-in-Chief" criticizes intel ceo, Lip-Bu Tan, calling him conflicted, then flip flops

By Jerry PDX
sunday, august 17, 2025 at 7:33:00 p.m. edt

The "Waffler-in-Chief"....I mean our "Commander-in-Chief" criticizes intel ceo, Lip-Bu Tan, calling him conflicted, then flip flops:

"Trump called for Tan’s resignation on thursday after senate republicans raised the alarm over his links to chinese companies and a criminal case involving his former company, cadence design systems."

"writing on Trump social, er, Trump said Tan was "highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately," adding: "There is no other solution to this problem."

Then Lip-Bu Tan meets with Trump, who changes his tune saying Tan has an "amazlng" story:

https://apnews.com/article/intel-china-trump-ai-cotton-bessent-lutnik-4fa333fa6134d01aca85f64bcd7972fb

Reports are that the government is interested in buying a stake in Intel, causing a spike in their stock shares, after a sharp drop when Trump suggested Tan might not be loyal to the US.

There's been a discussion about how about how bad, or good, Trump is as President and I'm not sure how he will stack up to other Presidents, but there moments when I just love what he does, and calling out a chinese CEO for possibly being more loyal to his culture than his country is something no other President would do, and I just love it when he does things like that. However, then Trump, being Trump, reverses himself and suddenly, I kind of hate him

. Sounds like deals are being cut and it's all about business, the possible infiltration of chinese operatives or other foreign rivals in government and business is forgotten.

I also have to wonder if there were people that had foreknowledge of Trump calling out Intel's CEO causing a stock slump, but also knew a deal was in the works with the government that would reverse things, making a killing in the markets. Not saying because I know anything for sure...just sayin'

Maybe we should really be calling Trump "The Inside Tipper-in-Chief"?


By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, august 17, 2025 at 11:51:00 p.m. edt

On a day-to-day basis, I said a while back, judging Trump is pointless. Wait until december 31st, and see what he has or hasn't done.

--GRA