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3. I'm reminded of a photo from a magazine years ago...
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 02:12 PM
Jul 8

...with a very stern-looking Japanese man in a business suit. The caption read, in big block letters, "YOU DON'T SELL ANYTHING THAT WE WANT TO BUY!". Now this was the late '80s, as I recall, so things are probably even worse today.

Trump is particularly galled by the fact that Japan won't buy many of our cars. Here's a good explanation why by way of David Pakman. (Bonus: a brief discussion of Trump's inscrutable fascination with coal mining).

(See 0:35-3:20).



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