Posted on 05/25/2019 8:48:15 AM PDT by McQ444
Donald Trump kicked off his state visit to Japan on Saturday by urging Japanese business leaders to increase investment in the US – but he also complained about his own central bank and knocked his hosts for having a “substantial edge” on trade, which he said negotiators were trying to even out. Leaving political turmoil behind him, Trump was nonetheless sent on his way by an anonymously sourced CNN report which said White House staffers dreaded and tried to avoid long trips on Air Force One, because the president rarely sleeps, busily tweets and demands their company. After 15 hours in the air, Trump arrived in Tokyo on Saturday. The visit is meant to be largely ceremonial. The president will meet Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, on Sunday for a round of golf, a sumo tournament and a private dinner. The two men share a warm relationship that Abe aims to emphasize as Washington considers tariffs on Japanese car exports it views as a potential national security threat.
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FIRST Prez who has really CARED about the USA...?
Sure seems like it.
The Japanese are going crazy for Trump. He’s being treated like a Roman God.
Internationally He’s the most respected President we have ever had.
What do our domestic enemies have cooked up for today to distract from the visit?
Who writes this $hit. They can’t even report on a trip without putting a negative slant on success.
Guardian is worse than the Slimes and Compost combined. Love the reference to Bolton as the “mustachioed hawk.”
The Latest: Earthquake rattles Tokyo before Trump visit
https://www.foxnews.com/world/the-latest-earthquake-rattles-tokyo-before-trump-visit
That's actually an excellent physical description of him.
Reporting on earthquakes in Tokyo is kinda like reporting on sunny days in Los Angeles.
Get in the first punch and get them back on their heels in negotiations!
and then he said to the Japanese “If we don’t come to an agreement, I’ll cause another earthquake”
Now you know even why the REPUBLICANS tried to “take him out” during the primary. Because they knew he would put paid to the usual dissembling nonsense of why nothing ever got done, our trade “deals” are shit, no discernable pushback against the 24/7 Bolshevik Bullshit in the never ending culture war, a businessman who knows how to read a balance sheet, no, they didn’t want him upsetting the apple cart, the multi-act production of the Aristocrats.
Hell, was I dreaming, - wasn’t it Paul Ryan who admonished then-candidate Trump to drop out of the presidential race just a month or two before the election? Am I misremembering??
The syndicated news on a radio station I was just listening to described the purpose of his visit as a time of “Lavish” dinners, Golf, and Sumo Wrestling.
I quickly changed the station. Most of the American people have no idea of the level of propaganda they are subject to by the MSM.
Yeah, that is what the British used to say about Churchill.
I think Trump does not - and many others do not - understand Japan, do not understand how an actually small Island nation, lacking many industrial needs in natural resources, can sustain the level of industrial production that it does. It’s surplus in trade with many partners is offset by its import costs in raw materials, particular fuels, which Japan has near zero sources of domestically.
At present, as Trump arrives in Japan, it’s trade surplus is far less than a year ago. That makes it an inopportune time - domestically for Abe - for the U.S. to be chiding them for a surplus that has shrunk. Much more than our European partners, Japanese companies have reduced their imports building manufacturing (and jobs) in the U.S. Japanese companies employee almost 900,000 U.S. employees in the U.S. Among the top ten cars made in the U.S., Japanese rank 3rd, 4th and 6th. That’s American made cars at U.S. domestic costs.
Full disclosure: I am actually NOT attempting to be a “Japan booster”. At the same time, I think many hits on Japan derive as much from natural envy (& the jealousy that obtains) as from knowledge of real time Japan; what its realities are.
No bias in the Guardian. Nope, nine at all. /s
Winnie was prepared when he visited the US. Keep in mind, alcohol prohibition was in effect, so he got a prescription:
“This is to certify that the post-accident convalescence of the Hon. Winston S. Churchill necessitates the use of alcoholic spirits especially at meal times. The quantity is naturally indefinite but the minimum requirements would be 250 cubic centimeters.”
That's about eight ounces, or five stiff drinks; at each meal.
The Daily Mail’s coverage is good:
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