On May 13, 2026, President Trump was received by China's representatives at his plane:
This was followed by a greeting with China's President Xi and an inspection of the troops.
The dignitaries then moved on to a bilateral meeting. The meeting opened with statements from President Xi then President Trump.
President Xi's remarks to open the meeting (0:14):
President Trump, I'm very pleased to meet you in Beijing. Welcome back to China after nine years. The whole world is watching our meeting. Currently, transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe and the international situation is fluid and turbulent. The world has come to a new crossroads. Can China and the United States overcome the fusidities trap and create a new paradigm of major country relations? Can we meet global challenges together and provide more stability for the world? Can we in the interests of the well-being of our two peoples and the future of humanity build a brighter future together for our bilateral relations? These are the questions vital to history, to the world, and to the people. They are the questions of our times that you and I need to answer as leaders of major countries.
This year is the 250th anniversary of American independence. Congratulations to you and to the American people. I always believe that our two countries have more common interests than differences. Success in one is an opportunity for the other and a stable bilateral relationship is good for the world. China and the United States both stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation. We should be partners, not rivals. We should help each other succeed and prosper together and find the right way for major countries to get along well with each other in the new era. Mr. President, I look forward to our discussions on major issues important to our two countries and the world and working together with you to set the course for and steer the giant ship of China US relations so as to make 2026 a historic landmark year that opens up a new chapter in China US relations.
President Trump's remarks (3:07):
Well, President Xi, I want to thank you very much. First of all, that was an honor like few have ever seen before. And I think I was particularly impressed by those children. They were happy. They were beautiful. The military is obvious. It couldn't be better. But those children were amazing and they represent so much and I know I know they represent so much to you. You and I have known each other now for a long time. In fact, the longest relationship of our two countries that any president and president has had and uh that's to me an honor. We've had a fantastic relationship. We've gotten along. When there were difficulties, we worked it out. I would call you and you would call me and whenever we had a problem, people don't know whenever we had a problem, we worked that out very quickly. We're going to have a fantastic future together. Such respect for China, the job you've done. You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader. Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it's true. I only say the truth.
And I just want to say on behalf of all of the great delegation that we have, we have the greatest businessmen, the biggest and I guess the best in the world. We have amazing people and they're all with me. They every single one of them. We asked the top 30 in the world, every single one of them said yes. And I didn't want the second or the third in the company. I wanted only the top. And they're here today to pay respects to you and to China. and they look forward to trade and doing business and it's going to be totally reciprocal on our behalf. So I really look very much forward to our discussion. It's a big discussion. There are those that say this is maybe the biggest summit ever. They can never remember anything like it. It's I can say in the United States it's people aren't talking about anything else. But it's an honor to be with you. It's an honor to be your friend. and the relationship between China and the USA is going to be better than ever before. Thank you very much.
On May 13, 2026, the White House published the Presidential Message on National Women’s Health Week reaffirming the Trump Administration's commitment to improving the health and well-being of American women. As part of the effort to Make America Healthy Again, the Trump Administration is confronting failures in American Health. They are working on making advancements for women's healthcare for prevention, early detection, and personalized treatment using scientific methods with integrity. President Trump writes:
My Administration is also working to ensure women have every resource available to protect and improve their health, ensuring real access to affordable care and accurate information that has the potential to transform lives. We are working to lower drug prices, improve price transparency, and confront the high out-of-pocket healthcare costs that burden women and their families. Through our Most-Favored-Nation drug pricing agreements and the launch of TrumpRx, we are delivering historic savings for the expensive, brand-name medicines—putting patients over profits.
American women deserve the very best when it comes to their healthcare, and my Administration will continue to deliver historic results for them. This week, we celebrate the incredible strides we have made and recommit to carrying this momentum forward like never before, forging a healthier future for every generation of women and girls.
On May 13, 2026, the White House published the release President Trump’s Unwavering Support for Law Enforcement is Making America Safe Again as we celebrate National Police Week, honoring the brave men and women who risk their lives daily to protect our citizenry. President Trump states that these heroes deserve to be respected, empowered, and supported. Due to the Trump Administration policies, law enforcement is back in control and it shows. Violent crime is down in major cities where law and order has been restored. The Trump Administration's commitment to law and order in our country can be seen in the actions taken: 1) imposing the death penalty for those who murder law enforcement officers/agents; 2) rescinding 'soft-on-crime' policies implemented by various Democrats; 3) empowering cities to clear their streets of disorderly vagrants; 4) restoring critical funding; 5) ending cashless bail; 6) dismissing DEI mandates and anti-police lawsuits; 7) restoring proactive policing and reclaiming law enforcement's authority; 8) sending Federal assistance in lawless areas; 9) reversing previous policies that denied law enforcement access to military surplus; 10) assistance removing criminal illegal aliens; and 11) removing restrictive consent decrees that allowed Federal micromanagement of law enforcement. The release concludes:
Under President Trump, America’s police are stronger, our communities are safer, and the results prove it.
Again, on May 13, 2026, Congress did nothing towards passing the SAVE America Act, still thwarting the will of We The People who want this act passed. Now! So what did they do instead?
The SENATE convened at 10am and adjourned at 7:44pm. Next meeting is 10am on May 14, 2026. They made 5 votes:
VOTE 123 (47-53) Rejected On the Motion to Proceed SJR130
VOTE 122 (50-50) Rejected On the Motion to Proceed SJR141
VOTE 121 (48-52) Rejected On the Motion to Proceed SJR132
VOTE 120 (54-45) Confirmed On the Nomination PN855-1
VOTE 119 (99-0) Agreed to On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed SR526
The HOUSE convened at 10am and adjourned at 8:41pm. Next meeting is 10am on May 14, 2026.
The House discussed the following 8 bills:
HCR75 Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove the United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
* HCR96 Expressing support for law enforcement officers.
* HR1251 Calling on elected officials and civil society leaders to counter antisemitism and educate the public on the contributions of the Jewish-American community.
* HR1252 Resolution memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
* HR1259 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should prioritize securing the release of Pastor Jin Mingri, Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife Pang Yu, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, and Jimmy Lai detained by the People's Republic of China during future engagements with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
* HR1274 Providing that section 11 of House Resolution 1224 - Protecting the Second Amendment in Financial Services Act - shall have no force or effect.
* HR1275 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5625) to direct the Attorney General to make publicly available a list of each State and unit of local government that permits cashless bail, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6260) to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit fraud in connection with posting bail; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8365) to provide for conditions on the appointment of monitors by courts, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 96) expressing support for law enforcement officers; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8469) making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes.
* HR1346 Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025
The House then made the following 10 votes on 7 of the above bills:
Roll no. 167 HR1259 - 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY - Passed 414 to 0 with 16 members not voting
Roll no. 166 HR 1251 - 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY - Passed 419 to 0 with 11 members not voting
Roll no. 165 HCR96 - YEA-AND-NAY - Passed 243 to 173 with 3 members voting 'present' and 11 members not voting at all
Roll no. 164 HR1346 - YEA-AND-NAY - Passed 218 to 203 with 9 members not voting (2nd round of voting since the first vote failed)
Roll no. 163 HR1346 - YEA-AND-NAY - Failed 112 to 309 with 9 members not voting
Roll no. 162 HR1252 - 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY - Passed 418 to 2 with 10 members not voting
Roll no. 161HR1274 - RECORDED VOTE - Passed 213 to 208 with 9 members not voting
Roll no. 160 HR1274 - YEA-AND-NAY - Passed 211 to 206 with 13 members not voting
Roll no. 159 HR1275 - RECORDED VOTE - Passed 214 to 208 with 8 members not voting
Roll no. 158 HR1275 - YEA-AND-NAY - Passed 211 to 208 with 11 members not voting
140 Presidential Orders, Memoranda, Determinations, Permits, and Notices
On May 13, 2026, the following Presidential Actions were sent straight to the FR for publication:
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain, signed May 11, 2026, extending EO 13873 signed May 15, 2019 for another year due to the exploitation of vulnerabilities in the information and communications technology or services supply chain.
Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 1245(d)(4)(B) and (C) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, signed May 7, 2026, informing the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Energy that President Trump has determined that:
there is a sufficient supply of petroleum and petroleum products from countries other than Iran to permit a significant reduction in the volume of petroleum and petroleum products purchased from Iran by or through foreign financial institutions.
certifying this case as a class action, designating Plaintiffs as Class Representatives, and appointing Plaintiffs’ counsel to represent the Class;
finding Defendants liable for their willful failure to ensure the security of Plaintiffs’ and Class Members’ PSI;
requiring Defendants to pay money damages, including actual and statutory damages, to Plaintiffs and Class Members;
declaring that the relevant conduct of Defendants is unlawful, and that Defendants shall indemnify and hold harmless any Class Member who has sustained or will sustain economic injury as a result of the unauthorized disclosures;
enjoining Defendants to extend free lifetime identity theft and fraud protection services, including credit monitoring and identity theft insurance, to Plaintiffs and the Class;
awarding reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs as may be permitted by law;
awarding pre-judgment and post-judgment interest as may be prescribed by law; and
granting such further and other relief as may be just and proper.
Plaintiffs hereby demand a trial by jury on all issues so triable.
Attorneys for the Plaintiffs are from Mason & Perry LLP and Merhi & Skalet, PLLC both law firms are based in DC.
We have all seen the memes going around showing how many people over the age of 100 are on the social security payment rolls and are currently receiving monthly payments from social security (see image below for an example). I am all for DOGE having access to ALL social security records to remove those no longer living from the social security rolls, remove duplicate recipients, and remove recipients who are not supposed to be receiving benefits at all (like illegal aliens).
The White House, in partnership with Hillsdale College and the US Department of Education, has published a series of videos for America250 called The Story of America. This video is from the that series and is called Story of the American Soldier narrated by Michael Knowles. Here is the transcript of the video posted below:
Just over 231,000 men served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and only 48,000 ever served at the same time. How many can you name? George Washington probably comes to mind, maybe Hamilton, Lafayette. If you're a real history buff, you might remember Nathaniel Green or John Stark. How about all the others? Who remembers the ordinary soldiers who won our independence?
I'm Michael Knowles, and I remember one of those soldiers. Not because he led a famous regiment or went on to hold any high office. There's no monument to his service other than a small headstone in a far-flung cemetery with a simple four-word epitaph.
Soldier of the Revolution
And I remember that soldier because he's my great-great-great great-great-grandpa Simon Knowles. Like most Continental soldiers Simon's name appears in the appendix of a history book. If not for a single army pension application written almost 50 years after the fact, no one would know a thing about his service. But Providence and Congress so arranged things that we do know about his services and the service of tens of thousands of his fellow rank and file soldiers.
Simon signed up to fight at the tender age of 15. And he served throughout the entire war, from the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, across the Delaware with Washington to the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Saratoga, through the bitter winter at Valley Forge, all the way through final victory at Yorktown, and then to an honorable discharge once again with Washington at Newburgh in 1783.
After the war, Simon, like most of his fellow veterans, became a farmer. He didn't own much. His estate comprised of a heifer, a sword from his father, and a walking cane. Personal effects all of the value of one dollar. This relative poverty, common among the men who won the revolution, was a hardship for him, but a blessing to us. Because it prompted these patriots to detail their service in official government documents in exchange for a modest stipend in their old age.
But money was never a top priority for these men. The teenagers and 20-somethings who enlisted and re-enlisted in the Continental Army might have done so with the promise of pay, but that pay rarely came on time. Even when it did, it was worth less than the paper it was printed on. A wagonload of Continental dollars would hardly buy a wagonload of provisions. The men were paid as though they were volunteers, but they were expected to fight like a professional army.
General Stark trained his men in the finer points of warfare, including the bayonet, which astonished the Hessians in the surprise attack at Trenton. Hessian survivors recounted that the American troops charged with a ferocity and discipline more characteristic of elite European forces than of a ragtag New World militia. These ordinary soldiers' skill in battle was all the more impressive, given the fact that they were usually starving.
At Valley Forge, during the winter of 1777 to 1778, meat and bread all but disappeared. The men lived on fire cakes, flour and water paste, for days on end. The most common refrain from the feeble huts that lined the camp was, no meat. Joseph Plum Martin was 17 years old when he encamped at Valley Forage. He wrote in The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier:
Oftentimes have I gone one, two, three, even four days without a morsel
unless the fields or forests might chance to afford enough to prevent absolute starvation.
Often, when I have picked the last grain from the bones of my scanty morsel,
have I eaten the very bones, as much of them as possibly could be eaten,
and then have had to perform some hard and fatiguing duty.
One in six soldiers died that winter. Those who survived the bullets and bayonets of the British, as well as the constant malnutrition, disease, dysentery, typhus, smallpox, and exposure. General Washington reported that by late December of that year, not less than 2,898 men were unfit for duty by reason of their being barefoot and otherwise naked. Many couldn't walk on their frost-bitten feet. And Valley Forge wasn't even the coldest winter.
Two years later, during the winter of 1779 to 1780, One sentry froze to death at his post in Morristown, New Jersey. When the Continental soldiers weren't freezing, they were dropping from heat stroke. At the Battle of Monmouth in June of 1778, countless soldiers collapsed and dozens died from heat exhaustion. One sergeant recalled that the sun-baked soldiers drank from mud puddles as they ducked British cannonballs.
But the endless suffering was only one part of the story and the minor part at that. The crucial fact of that battle of the whole revolution, really, was that the Americans stood their ground. Before the British slunk away, the Patriots had proved that they could face the finest army on Earth in open battle despite an incomparable disadvantage in training and supplies.
Unfortunately, the morale boost did not improve material conditions on the ground. When soldiers ran out of food in Maine during Colonel Arnold's expedition to Quebec, They boiled leather for soup. After seven days, with no kind of nourishment but roots and black birch bark, Private William Beggs recalled his party of soldiers ate a stray horse, and they were lucky to have found him.
On the Sullivan campaign in 1779, soldiers had to settle for horse feed, as overstretched supply lines reduced them to half rations without flour. And still, they managed to rout Tory rangers and their Iroquois allies at the Battle of Newtown, a major military victory, albeit one that cost them their clothes. One private, Nathan Davis, recalled that his uniform had been cut to rags by marching through woods and thickets. Many men walked bare-chested. The lucky ones wore Indian leggings. Some wore little more than loincloths, but they had broken the Indian strength. And advanced the Army's campaign.
Occasionally, troops mutinied. Who could blame them? But most did not. In Simon's New Hampshire line, no major mutiny ever broke out. These men had not signed up for good food, warm clothes, or pity parties. But they enlisted with a purpose, to defend their country. And the defense of one's country entails sacrifice.
Modern people sometimes struggle to believe that others are not as cynical as they themselves. They believe that all human action must derive from selfish, material interest. The ordinary soldiers who signed up to fight for American independence confound these cynics because they didn't stand to gain much of anything, at least materially, for their troubles. What motivated them was more valuable, honor, virtue, ideals. Ensign Samuel Cooper wrote in a Letter to His Wife dated July 1775:
The dangers we are to encounter I know not,
but it shall never be said to my children,
your father was a coward.
These soldiers took leave of their families, some of whom disagreed even with the cause of independence. They endured and overcame their hardships for, In the words of Massachusetts soldier James Davenport wrote in a Letter to His Brother on April 14, 1783:
Liberty, peace, and independence forever.
If the soldiers had one fear, it was the indifference of their countrymen, that their sacrifices would be in vain, and their cause soon forgotten. At Valley Forge, Dr. Albigens Waldo described the dread in his diary on December 14, 1777:
There comes a soldier. . . .
He comes, and cries . . .
I fail fast, I shall soon be no more!
And all the reward I shall get will be - poor Will is dead.
In 1780 the Continental Congress voted to give a reward, at least to officers who had served in the Revolution. Half pay for life, a courtesy later amended to full pay for five years. The ordinary soldier, on the other hand, returned home with next to nothing, worthless promissory notes and a pat on the back. It took an additional 38 years, and for most soldiers more than half a century for Congress finally to offer a reward to the destitute veterans who had not already died. Even in their old age and penury, these veterans once again gave their country a greater gift than anything they received in return. They told us who they were and what they did. And not one of their names was ordinary. No man is ordinary. Each man suffers and delights, fails and triumphs in his own way.
In the words of the poet of the revolution, Philip Freneau (published in The American Soldier):
Far, far from domes where splendid tapers glare,
'Tis his from dear bought peace no wealth to win,
Removed alike from courtly cringing 'squires,
The great man's levy and the proud man's grin.
Sold are those arms which once on Britain's blazed,
When, flushed with conquest, to the charge they came;
That power repelled, and
Freedom's fabrick raised,
She leaves her soldier - famine, and a name.
Share the stories of your ancestors who fought for our Liberty and Freedom in the comments section below (you don't need to name names). I'll start.
My 4th great-grand-uncle, Starling Gunn (1764-1852), fought for the Virginia Militia. He is known for firing the fist cannon during the Battle of York and was an eyewitness to the surrender of Cornwallis. Both of these events are recorded on his tombstone:
In addition, the Daughters of the American Revolution planted a tree near the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon. A box of soil from the grave of Starling Gunn in Caswell County, North Carolina was taken to Virginia as North Carolina's contribution to the tree-planting ceremony.
Starling's father, my 5th great-grandfather, Thomas Gunn (1738-1800), furnished supplies for the Continental Army.
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