Although we would be right to assume that President Trump has a group of people around him who, for the most part, will feed him information he ought to know to kind of get him through his trip about Asia with minimal displays of sheer stupidity, it is my dismal duty as a politics blogger to point out that he referred to Japan as a nation of samurai warriors who didn't shoot down NK nuclear missiles for reasons he can not fathom.
I both explicitly believe that he sincerely thinks of Japanese as samurai, and implicitly believe that he has no better understanding of missile defense than, roughly, this. It might be absurd to take Trump literally instead of thinking he is offering a kind of foreign policy haiku, but adopting literalism as a means of transcending cultural barriers is how I tend to roll.
In other news, he chastened the Japanese automotive industry for not opting to save the cost of import by building cars in the US. Even though they do. They really do have great big automotive plants in the mostly "right to work" states of the US south. The most "made in America" car is the Toyota Camry.
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