President Donald Trump is facing massive backlash from his own support base after he announced Monday that he plans to allow 600,000 Chinese students to attend American universities.
“I hear so many stories about how we’re not gonna allow their students. We’re gonna allow their students to come in. We’re gonna allow 600,00 students. It’s very important, but we’re gonna get along with China,” Trump said while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office.
This comes after Trump said in June that he would allow 500,000 Chinese students to study at American universities, and added that he wants them to stay in the U.S. after graduation.
During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday morning, President Trump defended allowing 600,000 Chinese students to come to America, and claimed that if we didn’t let foreign students come to U.S. universities, “our college system would go to hell very quickly.”
“We check, we’re careful, we see who’s there. But we have a tremendous college system. That’s why China sends them here. Call it an industry if you want…I’m honored to have the students from China come here,” Trump said.
🚨 President Trump clarifies his policy on Chinese students studying in the United States
Daily Caller White House Correspondent @reaganreese_: “In May, Secretary Rubio said the State Department was working to ‘aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students.’ Yesterday you said… pic.twitter.com/HFIi0HWhQN
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 26, 2025
Many of Trump’s most loyal supporters are furious over the announcement, and declaring, “This is NOT what I voted for.”
Journalist Laura Loomer wrote, “Paging @StephenM [Stephen Miller.] Nobody, I repeat nobody, wants 600,000 more Chinese “students” aka Communist spies in the United States. China murdered 1.2 million Americans. Now they get to replace us? This cannot happen.”
Paging @StephenM
Nobody, I repeat nobody, wants 600,000 more Chinese “students” aka Communist spies in the United States.
China murdered 1.2 million Americans.
Now they get to replace us?
This cannot happen.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 25, 2025
In another post, Loomer added, “They aren’t really students though. They are Chinese Communist spies. Would be great to kick all of these Chinese spies out of the US.”
They aren’t really students though. They are Chinese Communist spies.
Would be great to kick all of these Chinese spies out of the US.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 25, 2025
DMLNewsApp founder Dennis Michael Lynch warned, “This move is worse than Obama sending $$$ on pallets to Iran.”
This move is worse than Obama sending $$$ on pallets to Iran.
— Dennis Michael Lynch (@TrustDML) August 26, 2025
Gen. Michael Flynn declared, “Not what I voted for…”
Not what I voted for… https://t.co/W8pFQhN8bL
— Michael Flynn Jr (@realmflynnJR) August 25, 2025
China expert and author Gordon Chang asked, “600,000 Chinese students in our country? Do we really need hundreds of thousands more spies here?”
600,000 Chinese students in our country? Do we really need hundreds of thousands more spies here?
— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) August 26, 2025
Fox News host Laura Ingraham slammed the proposal while speaking to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Monday night.
Sec. Howard Lutnick tells @IngrahamAngle that, without Chinese students in American universities, 15% of schools would go under. pic.twitter.com/BrS1ZFr5qO
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 26, 2025
Journalist Chris Rufo wrote, “We can’t accept 600,000 Chinese students. If anything, we should reduce the number of Chinese visas, especially for students with political connections to the CCP.”
We can’t accept 600,000 Chinese students. If anything, we should reduce the number of Chinese visas, especially for students with political connections to the CCP.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 26, 2025
Right, colleges already have massive subsidies, so if they still can’t survive, they should simply fold
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 26, 2025
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted out the following statement:
“We should not let in 600,000 CHINESE students to attend American colleges and universities that may be loyal to the CCP. If refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15% of them to fail then these schools should fail anyways because they are being propped up by the CCP.
“Why are we allowing 600,000 students from China to replace our American student’s opportunities? We should never allow that. And we need more trade school graduates. Trade schools are a GREAT alternative and produce the essential education and training for the most needed jobs in America with very high starting pay.”
We should not let in 600,000 CHINESE students to attend American colleges and universities that may be loyal to the CCP.
If refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15% of them to fail then these schools should fail anyways because they are being…
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 26, 2025
Lucas Vaughn replied to Greene’s statement, writing:
Nailed it, and here’s the real kicker that makes this even worse.
Absolutely, letting in up to 600,000 Chinese students was indeed baked into the June 2025 trade truce with China, where Trump reversed a potential visa crackdown in exchange for Beijing restoring US supply chain access. But that doesn’t justify handing over our universities to potential CCP loyalists when we’ve got over 224 documented cases of Chinese espionage targeting the US since 2000 alone, with trillions in intellectual property stolen through students and researchers at our schools. In fact, around 80 percent of economic espionage prosecutions here involve links to China, including recent indictments for swiping trade secrets right out of American academic labs.
These spots should go to our own kids pursuing real opportunities, not subsidizing foreign spies while universities chase that easy tuition money. Pushing trade schools instead builds self reliance with high paying jobs in manufacturing and tech that actually strengthen America.
Enough compromising our security for short term deals, time to put America First and lock this down for good.
Nailed it, and here’s the real kicker that makes this even worse.
Absolutely, letting in up to 600,000 Chinese students was indeed baked into the June 2025 trade truce with China, where Trump reversed a potential visa crackdown in exchange for Beijing restoring US supply chain…
— Lucas Vaughn (@lucasvaugh91298) August 26, 2025
Xi Van Fleet, an anti-communist immigrant from China, specualated, “There won’t be 600,000 Chinese students coming anymore. With China’s economy collapsing and college graduates facing bleak job prospects, fewer parents have the money nor are willing to make such an investment. Those who still can are mostly the children of CCP elites—and that is the group we should be most concerned about.”
There won’t be 600,000 Chinese students coming anymore. With China’s economy collapsing and college graduates facing bleak job prospects, fewer parents have the money nor are willing to make such an investment.
Those who still can are mostly the children of CCP elites—and that…
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) August 26, 2025
Lily Tang Williams, another Chinese immigrant who is a Republican running for Congress, wrote, “They need to be well vetted as many of them are working for CCP, they are the kids of the powerful and wealthy. It is their plan to use “soft power invasion” to take over the USA as the #1 global power. China’s National Intelligence laws in 2017 mandate them to spy for CCP.”
“We must vet them. China’s National Intelligence laws in 2017: Article 7: All orgs. & citizens must “Support, assist, and cooperate” (支持,协助和配合): Implies active participation, such as providing information, resources, or access when requested by intelligence authorities,” Williams added.
We must vet them. China’s National Intelligence laws in 2017: Article 7: All orgs. & citizens must “Support, assist, and cooperate” (支持,协助和配合): Implies active participation, such as providing information, resources, or access when requested by intelligence authorities.”
— Lily Tang Williams (@Lily4Liberty) August 25, 2025
The MAGA backlash continues….
We voted for MASS DEPORTATIONS, NOT MASS IMPORTATIONS.
— Steven Steele (@MrStevenSteele) August 25, 2025
Nobody voted for Trump to allow 600,000 Chinese students to replace your kids in American schools and colleges.
That’s suicidal madness.
— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) August 26, 2025
Why is it so important to have so many foreign students? They take the spots at elite universities thus depriving American kids of their birthright. We need to stop this.
— Michael Sebastian (@HonorAndDaring) August 25, 2025
This is not America First
— Dale Stark (@DaleStarkA10) August 25, 2025
More important than your American children @POTUS
I hope you make your plan clear soon, as this is exactly what We voted to stop. We voted for America and Americans first. So, respectfully Sir, what do We get for allowing 600,000 university slots to go to non-Americans?!
— Natasha Beotchi (@Natasha1912802) August 25, 2025
Colleges and Universities so dependent on Chinese students that they cannot otherwise function should just be allowed to fold. Couldn’t help but improve the state of education in the USA.
— John Paul Harmon (@johnpaulharmon) August 26, 2025
WE ARE DONE WITH THIS SORT OF BS.
Honestly, we need a complete moratorium on all immigration until America stops spiraling into a third world sh*thole.
These deportations need to go way up and importations way down or America is TOAST.
— Steven Steele (@MrStevenSteele) August 25, 2025
No serious nation would allow another 600,000 students from their foremost geopolitical adversary.
For decades, the majority of international students in the U.S. have come from China and India.
There are almost 300K Chinese nationals enrolled in American universities.
Enough https://t.co/YKfBUVER7U pic.twitter.com/xC8WGPjMMs
— Adam Johnston (@ConquestTheory) August 25, 2025
So if I’m hearing this correctly, Chinese students make up 15% of our universities?
What in the world have we done to our country? https://t.co/pTzYP3zc74
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 26, 2025
If our Universe System has to rely on the Chinese Students to exist,we have a big problem with our higher learning educational systems!
— bbstacker – 🇺🇸 (@CrankitLoud) August 26, 2025
He’s tone deaf or has NO IDEA who China is, and what these students think of us and him.
— Mike Joseph (@MikeJosephAZ) August 26, 2025
Sometimes Trump is wrong. This is one of those times.
— Robert Morris (@NotABiologist22) August 26, 2025
Well @POTUS @realDonaldTrump , we’re gonna have to agree to disagree on this one.
— DOGE Adjacent (@askdan) August 26, 2025
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