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But Trump doesn't have any real ability to solve the increasingly collapsing economy, especially with smuggling infiltrating the US from all directions and corrupting customs and tariff departments. Even if Trump raises tariffs to 1000%, it doesn't matter, because people simply don't go through customs to enter the country legally.

Trump asked:

"What about cutting government spending?"

Ministry of the Interior's reply:

“The Vance administration had already stopped providing financial subsidies to U.S. states, so the poor states in the Rust Belt and Agricultural Belt were generally agitated. California, Texas, and other states also had a lot of complaints about the central government. In any case, this saved hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal expenditure.”

In a sense, this move to cut 'transfer payments' is tantamount to abandoning many poor and underdeveloped central states. But at this point, there's no time to worry about that.

Trump then asked the military:

"What about military spending?"

The military responded immediately, and more than one person answered at once:

"It's already been cut."

"He was chopped down by Li Xinghe."

This means it was physically cut off.

Because of the destruction of the Third Fleet, all three aircraft carriers were wiped out, and the entire Pacific Fleet was also wiped out. Now, the number of operational ships in Pearl Harbor is comparable to that of the Philippine Navy. As a result, the US military has saved at least $500 billion in military spending.

In addition, the three former U.S. Pacific Army divisions that were killed or destroyed by Li Xinghe have had their funding, which the U.S. military had been unable to cut, slashed by Li Xinghe to a great extent.

This amusing response left Trump speechless.

So Trump had to look at Social Security:

"Social security costs 1.7 trillion yuan annually, and medical insurance costs 1.2 trillion yuan annually. Why don't we cut these 3 trillion US dollars in spending?"

While many criticize China's social security and medical insurance as a tax, this perception is clearly incorrect. In reality, the United States truly treats all social security and medical insurance as a tax, and the money from this tax goes directly into the US Treasury, with revenue and expenditure managed uniformly according to fiscal regulations.

Rutnick came up with a bad idea:

“I have a solution: pay the current social security and medical insurance expenditures based on the pre-devaluation amounts for 2030... no, 2027, but require calculations based on the current exchange rate.”

What do you mean?

If a person's retirement pension is $600 and later increases to $800, while their cost of living is $900, then the government will still give them the initial $600 retirement pension, but their cost of living has increased to $2000, and that's all the United States will give them.

Previously, social security and medical insurance were subject to adjustments based on exchange rate fluctuations, with some degree of universal coverage. Now those adjustments are gone; everyone is back to square one, receiving exactly what they initially received. The fact that they didn't pursue the Americans for overpayments is already a blessing.

Some insightful people might criticize this, saying it's just a financial operation on par with the gold yuan, essentially wiping out Americans' social security and healthcare taxes.

Indeed, but it seems that's the only way.

Trump also remarked:

"It seems that this is the only way."

Since there is absolutely no way to control the situation domestically, everyone has been forced to offend the pharmaceutical industry and cut huge amounts of spending. What about abroad?

The United States is, after all, a peculiar country that treats foreign policy as domestic policy, and considers any achievements in foreign policy as achievements.

"What diplomatic achievements can we expect?"

Trump asked.

The current diplomatic focus is actually on two things: the war between Israel and Turkey, and Poland's blitzkrieg against Germany.

As a spokesperson for evangelical conservatives, Trump naturally pays more attention to Israel.

Trump’s attitude toward Israel depends both on the financial support of Israeli lobbying groups and on Israel’s ability to meet his “win-win-win” demands in international policy.

He will both order Netanyahu to meet his own political demands and take Israeli money to speak well of Israel.

Of course, most importantly, the Southern evangelicals have maintained evangelical politics for four years through Vance, and have maintained a strong policy inertia on issues such as abortion, anti-China sentiment, pro-Israel sentiment, and a return to conservatism.

Israeli diplomatic advisors provide the standard answer:

"There is no doubt that we will never accept Israeli refugees on a large scale. I think we must give Türkiye a more serious warning."

Evangelicals support Israel, but they are also anti-Semitic.

This seemingly contradictory approach, like Nazi Germany's support for Israel while being anti-Semitic, has its own unique theoretical basis.

So, Trump made the decision:

"We should deploy nuclear weapons in Tel Aviv to deter Türkiye and demonstrate America's power!"

After the meeting established the "three cuts and one deterrence" foreign policy, Trump immediately ended the meeting and went to receive intravenous treatment.

The seasoned veterans who left the office complained:

"Powerful my ass, if you're so capable, why don't you take action against Li Xinghe?"

At this point, military personnel naturally warned them:

"Shut up, Li Xinghe is too strong."

Subsequently, the spirit of the meeting was released to the public.

"Trump's three-pronged approach: cuts and deterrence" became a news headline.

When news of the devaluation of Social Security and Medicare, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Tel Aviv, and the lack of any statement on Europe, which effectively meant abandoning Europe, these three pieces of news instantly became the top headlines across the United States, almost once again shocking the United States and Europe.

Americans are furious again.

Good heavens, as soon as you come back, Trump, you're going to take my manhood?

Americans began withdrawing large amounts of their Social Security and Medicare funds, which quickly brought Social Security to a standstill.

If this continues, the social security fund pool will collapse like a bank.

Soon, Trump was forced to demand the cessation of all funding channels to Social Security and Medicare-related companies and to close the withdrawal of funds from the Social Security and Medicare fiscal pools, preventing all withdrawals of this money.

"what?"

"All stopped?"

Yes, in order to raise funds for himself, Trump had enough confidence to block both social security and health insurance after having a two-hour secret talk with the commanders of the First and Second Armies and inviting non-mainstream scholars such as Jeffrey Sachs to participate in online discussions.

Trump, adept at turning black into white, delivered a speech to Americans while still ill:

"This is a shock therapy for the American pharmaceutical industry! As long as we follow Jeffrey Sachs' shock process, we can quickly complete the new reforms to reduce drug prices and social security costs, and we will leave it entirely to the market to regulate itself!"

What exactly is the shock method?

The social security and medical insurance systems will be frozen for 3-6 months, and then the procurement rights for all drugs will be handed over to the market.

Since smuggling routes have already spread throughout the United States from all directions, Trump simply decided to abandon them all.

He announced that all legal constraints and import/export restrictions on pharmaceuticals imposed on large pharmaceutical companies across the United States would be lifted!

Americans are free to purchase the medicines they need from all over the world—from China, India, or even Africa—as long as they want. Trump granted them a 3-6 month tax break to establish purchasing relationships.

After the 6-month shock period (by which most of those who were supposed to die have died), a 6-month treatment period will be carried out, during which the tax rate on all kinds of drugs will be levied at half price, and normal will be restored after one year.

Theoretically speaking, this is indeed a good method.

Stopping social security and medical insurance payments and legal restrictions, allowing free market flow, seems to truly break the exploitative practices of pharmaceutical companies in the US healthcare system and provide the American public with a fairer environment for purchasing medicines.

Although medical insurance is gone, it's like starting from scratch.

Therefore, even with the relentless attacks on Trump by the American media, Americans have gradually begun to accept Trump's approach.

They found that the cost of ordering medicines directly from overseas was actually not very high.

When the news reached East Asia, the online community erupted in a frenzy.

Shock therapy?

The US itself has turned this word into a derogatory term, and they still dare to play it like this?

Netizens were amazed:

"Wow, Trump is awesome. I bet the pharmaceutical conglomerate won't let him live more than three months."

"It's still thanks to Chuanbao that he's capable!"

"Even though Chuanbao is dying, he's come back to life!"

At this moment, netizens from various East Asian countries gathered to watch, wondering how many more months it would take for Trump to be killed in Washington by the medical consortium.

On the contrary, many mainstream media outlets raised serious questions:

"What if we successfully put him into shock?"

Because China, India, and even the United States genuinely have the capability to fill this gap with their domestically produced drugs. Furthermore, patients with various chronic diseases are highly likely to die during this period, which would significantly reduce the burden on medical insurance.

Fortunately, many media outlets also believe that:

"The pharmaceutical conglomerate will not let Trump off the hook."

Public opinion suddenly focused on how much longer Trump could live.

Chapter 129 The Visible Power of Li Xinghe, The Fragmented Eurozone (4100 words)

Tokyo.

Although he makes jokes every day, Trump is, after all, a genius who is stepping on the gas pedal on America's downhill road. Li Xinghe must study his shock therapy policy carefully.

So while he was gathering information, he also had different think tanks and university policy institutes conduct rapid discussions on such a future and put forward several possibilities.

By late May, various think tanks had submitted their reports.

Li Xinghe convened a seminar on US policy at the Cabinet Office to discuss the issue with everyone.

Just then, Kokubun Makabe strolled in, her pregnant belly clearly showing. She walked around in front of everyone before pretending to have gone to the wrong place and trying to wander out.

"sit down."

Li Xinghe tapped the seat opposite him speechlessly, and Kokubun Makabe finally lowered his proud little neck and sat down obediently.

Kokubun Makabe is five months pregnant. This young lady continues the family tradition of someone getting pregnant every New Year; she conceived during the time she slept with Li Xinghe after the seventh month. This news has thrilled Kokubun and caused a great stir in Tokyo's financial circles. Therefore, Kokubun Makabe is as proud as a little phoenix.

Behind her, her older sister, Kokubun Tsukiya, sat down angrily. She was the angrier one because she was also pregnant, and it was her own bastard sister who had inserted her finger into her, using the white fluid from her sister's body.

Li Xinghe coughed twice, and Ayako Aso spoke on his behalf:

"What we need to figure out now is why Trump has become so audacious."

The old man used to prefer forcing the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and cause inflation rather than accept an economic recession under high interest rates. How come he dares to go to such extremes now and start tearing everything apart and starting from scratch?

The policy research department submitted many documents to Gao Tiao in May, and in May, Gao Tiao summarized:

"I'm afraid it's because the Trump family is essentially bankrupt."

The reason is actually quite simple: Vance acquired all of the Trump family's assets. Trump Tower, the Trump brand, Trump perfumes—all were sold off at a discount by Vance. Even Trump's cryptocurrencies and stablecoins were swept away, becoming worthless junk. The people who had managed the cryptocurrencies for Trump disappeared one after another, and the company's servers were gone.

The Trump family is effectively bankrupt.

The old man has nothing left now, and he didn't dare to be greedy in Florida, so now he naturally dares to do whatever he wants.

Since he was so bold, Li Xinghe believed that:

"So that means the Trump family must have benefited from this shock therapy."

Of course, if you think Trump has simply reformed, you're overestimating this old man.

Trump would never do something that doesn't benefit his family but offends a wide range of interests.

Sure enough, after targeted intelligence gathering, the movements of Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner were uncovered by the intelligence agencies.

Higashikawa Yukami went out and returned with a bunch of intelligence, which she distributed to everyone.

When they saw it, everyone was stunned.

Li Xinghe was somewhat at a loss for words:

"What do you mean that Donald Trump Jr. placed huge orders for insulin in China and India in advance? And that the Trump family is selling these drugs?"

Higashikawa Yukami suppressed a laugh:

"It's not just insulin. Orders for medications for common chronic diseases in the United States over the next few months have been locked up by the Trump family."

Everyone in the meeting room couldn't hold back any longer.

Even someone as good at making money as Li Xinghe wouldn't have done such a mess when he was in power.

Li Xinghe rubbed his forehead.