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Trump Meets Xi Jinping in Beijing
President Donald Trump left the White House on Tuesday for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping that was delayed six weeks by the war in Iran. Filmmaker Brett Ratner, joining the delegation, visited the press cabin on Air Force One and plans to scout locations and meet cast and crew for a fourth Rush Hour film. The trip includes five billionaires whose combined net worth totals $870 billion.
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President Donald Trump departed the White House on Tuesday for Beijing, China, aboard Air Force One for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Brett Ratner was aboard the plane and visited the press cabin, according to the Associated Press. Ratner is joining President Donald Trump’s delegation to China, where he will scout filming locations for Rush Hour 4 and meet with cast and crew, his spokesperson Victoria Palmer-Moore told the Washington Post.
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The summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was delayed for six weeks amid the war in Iran. Trump said Tuesday he is going to have a “long talk” about the Iran war with Xi, though he added shortly after, “We have a lot of things to discuss.
” Also joining President Donald Trump on the China trip are Elon Musk, Stephen Schwarzman, Tim Cook, Larry Culp, Larry Fink, Kelly Ortberg and David Solomon.
The five billionaires on the trip are worth a combined $870 billion, Forbes reported. Ratner’s trip continues his return to high-profile projects after years of Hollywood exile. He had not directed a movie since Hercules in 2014 prior to Melania.
The filmmaker helmed an Amazon MGM Studios documentary on First Lady Melania Trump that followed her for the 20-day period preceding President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025. Brett Ratner spent months at Mar-a-Lago while filming the Melania documentary in the weeks leading up to President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. The Melania documentary opened in theaters in January 2026.
4 million in the United States and Canada and $16 million at the box office. Ten percent of critics’ reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for the Melania documentary are positive. Amazon paid $40 million for the rights to the Melania documentary and spent $35 million on marketing and distribution.
