Trump Seemingly Defends Chinese Nationals Buying Farmland In The US

President Donald Trump on Thursday defended Chinese nationals purchasing U.S. farmland.

When asked about Chinese nationals buying farmland in the U.S., Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity during a Thursday evening interview: “look, it’s not that I love it—you want to see farm prices drop, you want to see farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out of the market.”

Trump also suggested during the interview that “good” students from China and other foreign countries that “want to stay in America” could potentially be given green cards. The president also claimed that it is “a very insulting thing to tell a country ‘we don’t want your people in our schools.’”

“But if you want to see a university system die, take a half-a-million people out of it,” Trump said. “And you know the ones that won’t be hurt are the top schools, the top schools will be fine, but your lower schools, the ones that don’t do quite as well, they’ll be dying all over the place.”

“I frankly think it’s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture, and many of them want to stay here, I think it’s good,” he continued. “Not everybody agrees with me, and it doesn’t sound like a very conservative position and I’m a conservative guy; I’m really a common sense guy more than a conservative guy.”