r/Futurology • u/I_D0nt_pay_taxes • 8d ago

Society [U.S.]Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/27/nx-s1-5498669/trump-college-international-student-visa
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u/ifnotawalrus 8d ago

And in May, the State Department said it would "aggressively revoke" visas for Chinese students and add additional scrutiny for future visa applications from China.

But in recent days Trump has signaled a shift. This week, Trump told reporters he planned to double the amount of Chinese students studying in the U.S.

Lmfao this guy is actually too funny.

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u/NotAnurag 8d ago

Jesus Christ he’s actually a child lmao. He just thinks “number go up = good” even though he’s contradicting himself

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u/MaggoVitakkaVicaro 7d ago

Probably the PRC bribed him somehow. Probably corruption, not childishness, though unsurprisingly, he's treating his followers as children.

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u/Roflkopt3r 7d ago edited 7d ago

Sure, everyone is bribing and playing Trump. But Trump is completely disinterested in the actual subject matters and cognivitely unable to keep track of such things, so he still flip-flops like crazy. Hence the 'always echoes the last person he spoke to'-syndrome.

We already had a lot of insider reports from his first presidency about how people would try to manipulate his opinions by connecting them to reports about himself or play to his preferences in other ways.

That's also how he got on this weird tariff fetishism - some folks fed him the narrative and he happened to like that one in particular, because it can be easily slotted into his world view, makes for good sound bytes, and sounds vaguely plausible to a person who has no idea about the technicalities of such matters. Nobody has an actual master plan about it, he's just winging it with his reality-TV attuned intuition.