{"id":24417,"date":"2026-05-17T00:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/the-chinese-gifts-tossed-before-boarding-air-force-one\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:38:42","slug":"the-chinese-gifts-tossed-before-boarding-air-force-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/the-chinese-gifts-tossed-before-boarding-air-force-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Gifts Tossed Before Boarding Air Force One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Staff for President Donald Trump made sure that no items from China \u2014 from delegation pins to burner phones \u2014 were taken aboard Air Force One on Friday as the plane departed the communist country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The move was part of precautionary measures taken by Trump\u2019s delegation to ward off Chinese spying and hacking during the high-stakes trip. Trump and other American officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/15\/us-news\/trump-bare-knuckles-his-way-through-china-summit-without-his-trusty-cell-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">made the trip<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> without their personal electronic devices to protect sensitive government and personal information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cAmerican staff took everything Chinese officials handed out \u2014 credentials, burner phones from WH staff, pins for delegation \u2014 collected them before we got on AF1 and threw them in a bin at [the bottom of the] stairs. Nothing from China allowed on the plane,\u201d New York Post reporter Emily Goodin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Emilylgoodin\/status\/2055174015816474724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">noted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. \u201cWe\u2019re taking off shortly for America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trump referenced the digital lockdown while<span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u00a0speaking to reporters on Air Force One, when he noticed he was being filmed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI heard you didn\u2019t have cameras back here. In fact, I loved it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI heard that you were shut out for two hours until we leave the airspace. But he\u2019s got a camera. This guy never misses a trip. You better make me look good with that camera.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hu5PEFkixSk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chinese gifts TOSSED before boarding Air Force One\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hu5PEFkixSk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The State Department advises Americans to keep a low profile when traveling to China and not to take any photos of protests or police activity without permission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cForeigners in the [People\u2019s Republic of China], including but not limited to businesspeople, former foreign-government personnel, academics, relatives of PRC citizens involved in legal disputes, and journalists have been interrogated and detained by PRC officials for alleged violations of PRC national security laws,\u201d the State Department said in a travel advisory. \u201cThe PRC has also interrogated, detained, and expelled U.S. citizens living and working in the PRC.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">China\u2019s hacking efforts have become notorious in recent years, including a recent operation launching the first autonomous AI cyberattack against dozens of U.S. companies and government agencies earlier this fall, with artificial intelligence executing \u201c80-90%\u201d of operations at \u201cphysically impossible\u201d speeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>American officials said in December 2024 that they believe China successfully hacked the Treasury Department in what officials described as a \u201cmajor cybersecurity incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-chinese-gifts-tossed-before-boarding-air-force-one\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff for President Donald Trump made sure that no items from China \u2014 from delegation pins to burner phones \u2014 were taken aboard Air Force One on Friday as the plane departed the communist country.\u00a0 The move was part of precautionary measures taken by Trump\u2019s delegation to ward off Chinese spying and hacking during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}