There’s Nothing MAGA About 500,000 Student Visas For The CCP
By: Brianna Lyman
May 15, 2026
Chinese students come to milk our education system and then bring their newfound education back to China to make China great.
When President Donald Trump descended the escalator in June of 2015, he reminded Americans of something many of their leaders had forgotten: “Our country has tremendous potential. We have tremendous people.”
And he was right — Americans are tremendous people with tremendous potential, which is why it’s so disheartening that the same man now says he wants to give 500,000 Chinese nationals student visas.
Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that he doesn’t want to “insult” China by denying student visas to some half a million Chinese nationals.
“‘I don’t want any students’ is a very insulting thing to say to a country,” Trump told Hannity — as if not insulting China should ever be a top priority or a consideration on which to base policy decisions. “If you don’t have those students, good students by the way … if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. … The ones that won’t be hurt are the top schools; the top schools will do fine. But your lower schools … the ones that don’t do quite as well, those schools, they’ll be dying all over the place.”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/15/theres-nothing-maga-about-500000-student-visas-for-the-ccp/