<p>Treasury Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/janet-yellen">Janet Yellen</a> served up some laughs — as well some concerns — in talking about her experience dining on a dish with hallucinogenic mushrooms in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a>.</p>
<p>In an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/business/janet-yellen-magic-mushrooms-china/index.html">interview on Monday</a>, CNN&#8217;s Erin Burnett pressed Yellen to talk about her experience eating &#8220;magic mushrooms&#8221; with a group of people at a Beijing restaurant earlier this summer.</p>
<p>&#8220;The person who had arranged our dinner did the order and there was a delicious mushroom dish. I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties. I learned that later,&#8221; Yellen said.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen explains eating a dish that contained “magic mushrooms” on her recent trip to China:</p>
<p>“There was a delicious mushroom dish. I was not aware that these mushrooms had hallucinogenic properties. I learned that later.” <a href="https://t.co/WFRe92hHT8">pic.twitter.com/WFRe92hHT8</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1691528097047232512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>An amused Burnett asked Yellen if she had any visions, perhaps when she was sleeping. Through a fit of giggles, Yellen insisted that she did not start tripping.</p>
<p>&#8220;I read that if the mushrooms are cooked properly, which I&#8217;m sure they were at this very good restaurant, that they have no impact,&#8221; the secretary said. &#8220;But all of us enjoyed the mushrooms — the restaurant and none of us felt any ill effects from having eaten them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some people reacted to the exchange on social media with glee and humor — including NPR correspondent David Gura making a <a href="https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1691509934683312129">economics joke</a> about how the &#8220;effects were transitory&#8221; — while others expressed uneasiness or ridiculed the Biden administration official.</p>
<p>&#8220;A Biden cabinet member was served hallucinogenic mushrooms in China? Can’t make this stuff up,&#8221; Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said in <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1691506370564988931">a post to X</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Intelligence officers use psychedelics to compromise their targets,&#8221; Eric Garland, a self-described geopolitical analyst with nearly 300,000 followers on X, <a href="https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1691517767474634753">said</a> in a post. &#8220;If they targeted Janet Yellen as part of an operation, diplomatic punishments should be swift and harsh.&#8221;</p>
<p>Steve Guest, a conservative commentator, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1691441249671118848">observed</a>, &#8220;Joe Biden&#8217;s America: The Treasury Secretary gets booked on CNN to talk about shrooming while in China,&#8221; while the Republican National Committee&#8217;s Jake Schneider <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobkschneider/status/1691446055169064960">quipped</a>, &#8220;This is a very serious administration.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Yellen made the trip to China in early July. She ate at the restaurant — part of a Yunnan food chain called Yi Zuo Yi Wang — shortly after landing in Beijing, according to CNN, which also <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/travel/yunnan-cuisine-beijing-restaurant-mushrooms-yellen-intl-hnk/index.html">reported</a> the restaurant later posted to the Chinese social media platform Weibo to share that staff said Yellen &#8220;loved&#8221; the mushrooms &#8220;very much. She ordered four portions of jian shou qing (a Yunnan wild mushroom species). It was an extremely magical day.&#8221;</p>
<p>During her interview with the secretary, Burnett noted the chain&#8217;s wild mushroom dish has been selling out in locations around China ever since Yellen&#8217;s meal at the restaurant &#8220;set off a frenzy.&#8221;</p>
<p>While in China, Yellen set her focus on discussing issues such as economic competition, national security, and &#8220;climate finance.&#8221; By the end, she insisted the talks <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/08/janet-yellen-china-talks-00105311">were &#8220;productive.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>But Yellen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/treasury-secretary-ripped-for-bowing-to-chinese-official">garnered some criticism</a> with the emergence of video footage showing her bowing repeatedly to a Chinese official during the visit to Beijing.</p>

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