{"id":22483,"date":"2026-05-10T19:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-terribly-weakened-ahead-of-china-visit-top-armed-services-democrat\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:22:12","slug":"trump-terribly-weakened-ahead-of-china-visit-top-armed-services-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-terribly-weakened-ahead-of-china-visit-top-armed-services-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;terribly weakened&#8217; ahead of China visit: Top Armed Services Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said Sunday that President Trump is heading into his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a &ldquo;weakened&rdquo; position. &ldquo;President Trump is going into this meeting terribly weakened,&rdquo; Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told host Shannon Bream on &ldquo;Fox News Sunday.&rdquo; &ldquo;He has involved ourselves in&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5871630-reed-trump-china-iran\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said Sunday that President Trump is heading into his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a &ldquo;weakened&rdquo; position. &ldquo;President Trump is going into this meeting terribly weakened,&rdquo; Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told host Shannon Bream on &ldquo;Fox News Sunday.&rdquo; &ldquo;He has involved ourselves in&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}