Fox News host Laura Ingraham didn’t hold back during her interview with Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Monday night.
She took direct aim at President Donald Trump’s shocking announcement that his administration will allow up to 600,000 Chinese students to study at American universities.
President Donald Trump announced a plan to admit up to 600,000 Chinese students into U.S. universities, more than double the current 270,000, during a press briefing on Monday.
Trump pitched the idea as a “strategic move” to strengthen trade leverage with Beijing and prop up financially strapped U.S. universities.
“I hear so many stories that we’re not going to allow their students,” Trump told reporters.
“We’re going to allow their students to come in. It’s very important, 600,000 students. It’s very important. But we’re going to get along with China,” he added.
“But it’s a different relationship that we have now with China. It’s a much relationship economically than it was before with Biden.”
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NOW – Trump says he’ll allow 600,000 Chinese students into the U.S. pic.twitter.com/8h0S9O1Ib6
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 25, 2025
Many blasted the move as a betrayal of the America First agenda, warning that it risks flooding U.S. campuses with individuals loyal to the Chinese Communist Party.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) issued a fiery statement on X:
“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
Investigative reporter Laura Loomer went even further:
“I didn’t vote for more Muslims and Chinese people to be imported to my country. Sorry, but these immigrants from communist countries and Sharia sh*tholes don’t make America great. Please don’t Make America China. MAGA doesn’t want more immigrants.”
I didn’t vote for more Muslims and Chinese people to be imported to my country.
Sorry but these immigrants from communist countries and Sharia shitholes where child rape is legalized don’t make America great.
Please don’t Make America China.
MAGA doesn’t want more immigrants.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 26, 2025
On The Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham grilled Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on national television, cutting straight to the heart of grassroots outrage:
Laura Ingraham:
An issue, Mr. Secretary, for—I think—the base of the Republican Party, and certainly for the Ingraham Angle for many, many years, is this: conservatives have raised concerns about foreign students coming to the United States and taking spots that would normally, obviously, be open to American students. The President addressed this issue as part of the Chinese trade deal, which might be in the offing… Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, how is allowing 600,000 students from the Communist country of China putting America first?Howard Lutnick:
Well, the President’s point of view is that what would happen if you didn’t have those 600,000 students is that you’d empty them from the top. All the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15% of universities and colleges would go out of business in America. So his view is he’s taking a rational economic view, which is classic Donald Trump looking at higher education and saying, until we modify that.Laura Ingraham:
But why are you helping Harvard? That just helps Harvard and UCLA and UC Berkeley. You’re all helping those schools. Why? They’re basically factories of anti-American propaganda. Now they’re getting a big influx of cash because of the Chinese students. I know President Trump has always been very pro-Chinese student. I just don’t understand it. For the life of me, those are 600,000 spots that American kids won’t get.
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Ingraham: “How is allowing 600K students from China putting America First? Those are 600K spots that American kids won’t get.”
Commerce Sec. Lutnick: “If you didn’t have those 600K students, the bottom 15% of colleges would go out of business.” pic.twitter.com/isSqsV0iLb
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 26, 2025
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