re: #36 Donkey With No Name

Ha, NHK is literally interviewing random Mar-a-Lago guests about the moment that the North Korea news arrived (and also pointing out a Trump tweet that said that NK wouldn’t launch a missile test)…

On the other hand NHK is trying very, very hard to send the message that Trump and Abe hit it off, so some unfortunate editorial staff are trying to walk a very narrow path of throwing shade on Trump and playing up the importance of Abe’s relationship with him.

Just watching their body language, I can guess that Abe and Trump did not hit it off at all. Abe was being a professional diplomat, while Trump was being a schoolboy reveling in his new-found famous friends. Trump simply has no class, no clue on how to act in “civilized” company, and it shows. Abe probably came away thinking he had just met with the world’s dumbest national leader, one that he could probably manipulate to benefit Japan’s national interests.