# Devolution Power Hour Ep. 457: Trump in Beijing, CIA Hoax, and the War on Naming Things

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-05-14T05:21:25+00:00
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## Resource

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open with live footage from Trump's bilateral summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing. Burning Bright unpacks his multipolar margin call theory: the entire US/China trade war was a coordinated squeeze on the global billionaire class, and the summit is Trump and Xi standing at the head of the table telling those 30 top CEOs exactly who controls the future of their companies. From there the show pivots to The Atlantic's rebuttal of Trump's National Counterterrorism Strategy, which the guys frame as the media confirming exactly what the strategy says about them, that they are instruments of fifth-generation psychological warfare. Seb Gorka's clip calling for the mapping and identification of Americans for their speech draws sharp criticism, including his dual citizenship and what that should disqualify him from holding. The fake CIA raid on Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI office gets a thorough debunking alongside a breakdown of Anna Paulina Luna's pattern of attaching herself to viral MAGA narratives. Trump's Iran quote gets a fair but honest assessment, and Robert Kagan's neocon warning article is read as an unintentional confirmation of Burning Bright's disentanglement thesis. The show closes on Operation Epic Fury potentially being renamed Sledgehammer to dodge the War Powers Act

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