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@realDonaldTrump
Great fun and meeting with Prime Minister @AbeShinzo. Numerous Japanese officials told me that the Democrats would rather see the United States fail than see me or the Republican Party succeed - Death Wish!
12:37 AM · May 26, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone
Link to tweet
Docreed2003
(16,864 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Japanese official: "This guy is the dumbest asshole in history!"
Rump hears: "President Trump is everyone's hero!"
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)Fukishima has 'the best fish' don.
***And were paying for this insult why? An American holiday of remembrance, and he insults 2/3rds of the nation?
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Will tell him Fukishima has the BEST golf course......
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)the many Japanese people I know, one a research psychiatrist renting a room here, but I think there is a hesitation about publicly discussing, maybe especially with foreigners, controversial subjects. Our last tenant, a virologist born in Hiroshima, when asked about the bombing of the city, well, he didnt know we had used the atomic bomb there.
Took about three years and then a polite conversation that went along the both sides path with
lots of upbeat lets all get along and how great to be learning so much as a scientist in America.
So I think I will stop putting people on the spot.
Daily Beast is probably right about Abe.
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)isn't likely to contradict him.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)personally dont know anything. And after some conversational blunders am not going to ask any of the Japanese nationals I know.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/japan-has-a-new-emperor-naruhito-and-a-new-era-but-a-dark-future-under-shinzo-abe
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)I suggest you start a separate thread with the link. It needs to be read far and wide. No wonder Trump loves Abe.
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)the way North Korea did, he'll invent attacks on Dems that Japanese officials supposedly said.
Of course the Japanese government isn't likely to contradict him with an official statement, especially during a visit, so he'll claim the lack of any pushback on what he said in that tweet proves what he said.
Thread about his weaponizing diplomacy:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212131135
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)Link to tweet
Btw, judging by the responses on Twitter to Trump's post, most people do believe he was lying.
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)What the officials actually said (in Japanese) was This guy is even dumber than he appears to be on Twitter. No wonder hes Putins stooge. He looks like hell, plus he cheats at golf.
Celerity
(43,416 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You fucking lying, cheating, loser! Burn in hell.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)He never has unified this country.
His a partisan hack.
A Putin stooge.
A traitor.
He needs to be in prison.
Thanks for nothing FBI, IRS, CIA, DOJ, etc. You let this happen. Fuck they killed JFK and installed Dump. FUCK!
JudyM
(29,251 posts)NBachers
(17,122 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)Okay. Name them.
Initech
(100,081 posts)The republicans are making it fail and dragging everyone with their sorry excuses for human beings.
mahina
(17,669 posts)DeSmet
(257 posts)told Trump to rake the California forests to prevent wild fires.
Doodley
(9,095 posts)claim that the firefighters were on his side.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Vinca
(50,279 posts)It also occurred to me that Trump isn't as repulsive to the Japanese as he is to us because they're the home of anime cartoons and every town has a weird mascot. Trump's the ultimate cartoon figure/mascot.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)True Blue American
(17,986 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Full blow asshole!
riversedge
(70,242 posts)coming from them. just saying
True Blue American
(17,986 posts)Was a fake. I just read that Abe is coorupt as they come, and the group in power now want to return to the Corrupt Imperial government they had before 1941.
Day in Infamy, anyone? Sounds like Trump and the Republicans here.
The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)It isn't the Democrats who are bringing down the US.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)tanyev
(42,568 posts)And there are plenty of those, but I also found this gem:
Before sitting down with Putin, Obama was also being criticized by key GOP leaders, who accused him of playing into the Kremlins hands.
Senator Marco Rubio told NPR news early Monday morning that if he was president, Im not sure we would meet with [Putin] or Iranian leaders. Rubio, a presidential candidate and Republican establishment favorite, received praise for his performance in the second GOP presidential debate, during which he said that the United States needed to take a tougher approach to Russia. Obama and Putin have not met since 2014, when Russia escalated its involvement in Ukraine by supplying weapons to pro-Russian separatist forces.
The perception that Obama has rolled out the red carpet for Putin is a key part of Republican candidates complaints about current U.S. foreign policy, as Jeb Bush noted on Twitter: Obama allows Russia & Iran more influence in Syria & Iraq. Not good for US, Israel, or our moderate Muslim partners
https://www.newsweek.com/obama-putin-meeting-criticism-377689
Fucking hypocrites.