Classic 1989 Brain from the big fella here, just some dumb bit of gossip that snagged in his brain and which he will never stop believing. Absolutely convinced that every onscreen moment of the film Rising Sun really happened, and that he alone can get to the bottom of it. - ThreadSky

davidjroth.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Classic 1989 Brain from the big fella here, just some dumb bit of gossip that snagged in his brain and which he will never stop believing. Absolutely convinced that every onscreen moment of the film Rising Sun really happened, and that he alone can get to the bottom of it.

Reposted from Carl Quintanilla

FT: Trump “has puzzled trade negotiators in Tokyo after complaining about a test where he claims a bowling ball is dropped on a car ..

“.. Japan does not carry out such tests ..”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b545...

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arsenalbos.bsky.social•6 days ago

$20 says he's thinking of that mattress ad involving a bowling ball test that I saw every ten minutes in the mid 90s.

therealtesch.bsky.social•6 days ago

The trodden “They own Pebble Beach now, ya know” thought driving our economy

williamchatnoir.bsky.social•6 days ago

Like when he found out Lincoln was a republican and he assumed since he didn’t know it that nobody else could have. He still likes to wheel that chestnut out when he wants to be seen as the guy with the cool-smart anecdotes.

teachsf.bsky.social•6 days ago

How badly do you think he wants 1992 Wesley Snipes to call him Senpai?

teachsf.bsky.social•6 days ago

I don't care that the movie actually came out in 1993.

orleancooper.bsky.social•6 days ago

A very 1990-ass 1993 movie.

decmusicology.bsky.social•6 days ago

I do think Michael Crichton has a surprising amount to answer for here

davidcrowe.bsky.social•6 days ago

Don’t tell him cars can’t jump between buildings, because he’s seen it happen. Yakusa magic.

wolmania.com•6 days ago

First I was like yes, Rising Sun is probably his favorite movie. But then I started wondering if he’s ever watched a film from start to finish. And now I’m just imagining him settling in for a screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

fballandrea.bsky.social•6 days ago

That was a Letterman bit, no?

socratesjohnson.bsky.social•6 days ago

And better call Saul to a degree

davidjroth.bsky.social•6 days ago

That seems to be the closest anyone has gotten on the question of "what is he even talking about here"

thewetmale.bsky.social•6 days ago

I can see Trump being genuinely thrilled by the scientific method of Will It Float.

fballandrea.bsky.social•6 days ago

Fact cats. Yes.

2xaught7.ing•6 days ago

I did find this YouTube mashup of people doing things to cars. Maybe Junior got all revved up one day and ran to the Oval in hysterical laughter to show him this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_PwcFCGvU&t=315s

niral.bsky.social•6 days ago

There’s maybe a mid-80s Nissan commercial? Can’t find it though.

flim-flam.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://youtu.be/Y70eWqM4GrY?si=3JfjEkSU0YqgKtJr

flim-flam.bsky.social•6 days ago

A weapon to surpass bowling balls?

niral.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well, now that we’ve gotten to bottom of this, what next for Japan?

pbump.com•6 days ago

David, I think you should know that when he said this in 2018 I rented and watched Rising Sun and this isn’t in it.
It’s called journalism.

mobute.bsky.social•6 days ago

thank you senpai

teachsf.bsky.social•6 days ago

you're welcome kohai

jtramsay.bsky.social•6 days ago

Jeb I think I’m tracking correctly is this thread about Minions now

davidjroth.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you for doing the work

maxellxlii.bsky.social•6 days ago

Kohai

slurmslurper.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is it possible it’s in the classic East-meets-West Michael Keaton comedy GUNG HO

staciajones.bsky.social•6 days ago

The article about whether it came from RISING SUN or not was hilarious to me because I was sure the scene had actually been in GUNG HO and they watched that one, too, and it's not there either!

Archive link to the hard-hitting WaPo investigation in case anyone hits paywall:

https://archive.ph/H0PJM

semmiotic.bsky.social•6 days ago

“So a Shaq genie movie becomes a Sinbad genie movie and people wonder why it isn’t on Netflix.”

The days when movies were on Netflix.

mrhamburgerbuns.bsky.social•6 days ago

I haven't seen it since the 80s but there's a decent chance it's from Gung Ho?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/

bustedride.bsky.social•5 days ago

Watched Gung Ho because of of this. No bowling ball test.

But the fictional union hourly wage in 1986 was $11.50 and the new Japanese rate was $8.50.

Still well above minimum wage of 2025 at $7.25.

benmathislilley.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think he’s thinking of the mattress commercial

ennui.org•6 days ago

Apparently there was a Nissan commercial with it

bigfarts420.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s from an early nineties ad from GM showing off the Saturn plastic body panels and how they’re hard to dent. Dude saw that commercial 30 years ago for GM’s import fighter brand and now he’s convinced it’s a Japanese thing.

staciajones.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've seen people suggesting it might be this Nissan commercial with one hundred million bowling balls taking out an entire street of cars, which would be hilarious

https://youtu.be/MTvsJUPNy6Y

kaiten9653.bsky.social•6 days ago

Donald Trump’s world view s entirely based on Michael Crichton books he did not read but overheard someone talking about at party in 1987

ollyjr.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump recounting half-remembered sequences from Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (Thompson, 1989) mashed in with snippets of a commercial for McDonald’s “Shanghai Chicken McNuggets” to puzzled members of the negotiation team and asking them what they remember about it

bousloggy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Mattress test vs wine glass pyramid became the baseline

anocelittle.bsky.social•6 days ago

That sorta sounds like this MadTv sketch…

lealeander.bsky.social•6 days ago

MadTV was great. Anyone know if reruns are running anywhere?

funkaspuck.bsky.social•6 days ago

He’s probably confusing them with the mattress commercials 🤔🙄

leodafinchy.bsky.social•6 days ago

His mind is a fishing net caught on a rock and cut loose

orleancooper.bsky.social•6 days ago

"WHAT KEEPS HIM RUNNING??"

"Sir, Energizer is an American company."

"That bunny. The beef. Where is the bunny's beef. You want it, you got it Toyota."

/prepares very long syringe

jeepinben.bsky.social•6 days ago

Do we think he knows about the Swedish Moose test? Because that's a real thing

hwbrgdtse.bsky.social•6 days ago

His new economic advisor is going to be Crazy Eddie.

warriorrabbit.bsky.social•6 days ago

Does he also cite the construction worker hanging from a hardhat superglued to a beam?

daver98133.bsky.social•6 days ago

Or the gorilla tossing around the American Tourister luggage...

https://youtu.be/Q5sEIWlQO7A?si=or_R9CUjQNvJf7nU

haredurer.bsky.social•6 days ago

Getting advice from Lee Iacocca's ghost.

patrickhruby.bsky.social•6 days ago

When you know the bowling ball test is real no matter what they say

surathing.bsky.social•6 days ago

He only watched it because he heard "Crazy Eddie" was in it and turned it off if in a huff when it wasn't that Crazy Eddie.

kingoficme.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thinking about the anecdote you told about someone in the theater for Rising Sun saying “outstanding” when Tia Carrere gets topless.

rsmjr.bsky.social•6 days ago

For "dumbass American/Japanese crime thriller where Tia Carrere has a topless scene," I tend to favor Showdown in Little Tokyo.

lealeander.bsky.social•6 days ago

Maybe it was on an episode of Jackass?

niral.bsky.social•6 days ago

I remember when my parents saw Rising Sun. My brother and I saw 3 Ninjas at the same time. So much media was Japan Panic and Wonder. Even Nakamichi Plaza.

niral.bsky.social•6 days ago

The cool part of which is that it was a rare moment (outside of war) of Asian men not being portrayed as meek and effeminate.

danieltbrennan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Repeatedly floating Max Headroom for cabinet positions

raphdelrio.bsky.social•6 days ago

He’s going to ask about Joe Isuzu too

patricklindsey.bsky.social•6 days ago

He just watched Gung Ho and Collision Course back to back

del973.bsky.social•6 days ago

I can only think of 1 man who can pull us out of this

wayneb.bsky.social•6 days ago

see your Japanese panic Michael and raise you a Michael

lolphillies.bsky.social•5 days ago

They need to find a bull terrier and put it in a Hawaiian shirt and tell Trump it’s Spuds MacKenzie, he’d probably give him the Medal of Freedom

jak1201.bsky.social•6 days ago

We have to go after Libya for what they did to Emmett Brown!

shabbydude.bsky.social•6 days ago

Are you claiming that there isn't big trouble in little China, David?

davidjroth.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well that's something we need to look into

billcorbett.bsky.social•6 days ago

please, do it very strongly. that is the best way to look into things.

shabbydude.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Lords of Death aren't sending their best. But Lo Pan is a great friend who has been treated very unfairly, just like "Trump".

jakecole.bsky.social•6 days ago

Jack Burton—one of our great Truckers, and a big fan of what we’re doing—came up to me, tears in his eyes, he said they’re shooting lightning out of their fingers, out of their, wherever. And he says they want green-eyed ladies, which you don’t see much anymore, and it’s so disgraceful.

seanoconnor.bsky.social•6 days ago

He thinks all of mexico is "Sicario" so this tracks.

captmurphy.bsky.social•6 days ago

I wish Trump’s 80s brain was used for good, like getting a new Die Hard or organizing an old timers game with Jim Deshaies and Gary Carter.

jaytingle.bsky.social•6 days ago

Letterman used to drop heavy objects onto things back in the 1980s.

famousartthief.bsky.social•6 days ago

we know what joe isuzu has been doing and we are looking very strongly into it

adlemm.bsky.social•6 days ago

It must be incredibly surreal for the other countries’ trade negotiators… Trying to accommodate the demands of quislings parroting the demented fantasies of their dear leader, forcing concessions for things that aren’t real, how do you negotiate with that?

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