The President of China visited the United States for a meeting with Donald Trump during the week of October 8, 2026.
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Badlands MediaOct 15, 2026
The claimed visit during the week of October 8, 2026 is contradicted: the White House and other sources place Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington on September 23-25, 2026, weeks before that week. No source reports a Trump-Xi in-person visit in early October, so the claim is false; the post's 'last week' (posted October 15) does not match the record.
What was said
… She looks at i swear, she's a dumb person. I know smart people. I mean, I deal from Elon down to Katie. I figure there's a big gap. No, Elon's 80% super genius and 20%, he got a little problem. I always tell him. No, he's a great guy, though. We had the, the President of China last week, and people said, Oh, why are you doing that? I'm doing that because we get a long distance. You know, we're doing great with China. We make a lot of money with China. We used to lose a lot of money with China. We make a lot of money with China, and China respects us, too. He doesn't come to a country, believe me. He doesn't come to a country. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The White House's official release says Trump and Melania Trump concluded the historic state visit with Xi Jinping on September 25, 2026, placing the visit in late September rather than the week of October 8.[2]
Contradicts. Snopes and the U.S. Embassy both date the visit to September 24, 2026 (Xi's first visit to Washington in over a decade), and the Institute of Geoeconomics gives the dates as September 23-25.[1][3][4]
Contradicts. Later coverage from October 16 and October 20 describes the visit in the past tense and points to future meetings (APEC in Shenzhen in November, G20 in Miami in December), with no visit in the week of October 8.[4][5][6][7]
Context. The claim's date was taken from the post's 'last week' relative to its October 15 posting, which is a faithful resolution; the error lies in the visit's date, not in the extraction.
Sources
7 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 114 rumors we've investigated about US-China relationssnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2President Trump, First Lady Conclude Historic China State ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 3Historic China State Visit - U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Chinachina.usembassy-china.org.cn · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4China's Calculus Behind the State Visit to the U.S.instituteofgeoeconomics.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5US-China Ties: Why The World Should Worryrediff.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6Trump open to idea of joint meeting with Xi, Putin next monthrmb.reuters.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7Chinese Embassy in the United States Hosts a Reception ...fmprc.gov.cn · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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