The China trip did not go well, and it’s embarrassing
5/15/20261 hr 13 min
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No one goes to Hank's for his spreadsheets. They go for a darn good pizza. Lately, though, the shop's been quiet, so Hank decides to bring back the $1 slice. He asks Copilot in Microsoft Excel to look at his sales and costs to help him see if he can afford it. Copilot shows Hank where the money's going and which little extras make the dollar slice work. Now Hank's has a line out the door. Hank makes the pizza, Copilot handles the spreadsheets. Learn more at M365Copilot.com/work.
David Pakman· Host0:29
Fortunately, Donald Trump's diplomatic trip to China is over. Very little diplomacy. Donald Trump publicly played like a fiddle by the Chinese President Xi. Trump publicly agreeing with Xi's description of America as a country in decline, and then made it even worse on Truth Social after talking about Chinese food and visibly struggling to get up the steps to Air Force One. The most globally embarrassing foreign trip for an American president in history, certainly in decades, that's for sure. Now meanwhile, here at home, Americans are getting crushed at the grocery store, and we're gonna take a closer look today at the very manly beef. Beef as the guidepost of food affordability and Americana, and it doesn't look good. We're also going to look at a three-time Trump