I feel like we’re starting with Japan here purely because Trump has terminal 80s brain - ThreadSky

josephpolitano.bsky.social • 4 days ago

I feel like we’re starting with Japan here purely because Trump has terminal 80s brain

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I think they are the only ones at the table that are reputable so far...

Also, they know they can play him like the ignorant fiddle he is... 🎻

danshenise.bsky.social•4 days ago

100%.

He’s still fixated on battles from almost 1/2 a CENTURY ago.

bigbrain1234.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep. Absolutely. Arrested development POTUS.

homola1950.bsky.social•2 days ago

He has no idea who or what he is up against!

josephpolitano.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you were going by trade importance you would start with the EU, if you were going by geopolitical importance you would start with Taiwan.

tabernita.satan.social•4 days ago

Trumps hates EU, I don't think he wants to talk to us before he has a handful of countries to use as examples.

jammaj.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is also the matter of the gold golf club gift.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/17/trump-shinzo-abe-melania-birthday-japan-1278635

thewillow.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe he is going by largest holders of US debt

katie0martin.ft.com•4 days ago

Nono, Japan.
The Nakatomi Plaza Accord

ubik12.bsky.social•4 days ago

This. His trade policy is essentially based on Die Hard, Black Rain and Rising Sun.

dmnd.me•4 days ago

Donald Trump will not rest until there is a Blu-Ray release of Gung Ho https://youtu.be/oFwFisdZcfI?feature=shared

thirdthoughts.bsky.social•4 days ago

I didn't know he was into autoerotic asphyxiation. Or eating sushi off of nakedness women. Thought he was more a burger guy...

p0rfiry.bsky.social•4 days ago

Don't forget Gung Ho

katie0martin.ft.com•4 days ago

He'll be demanding that Japan buys bearer bonds next

simon-gentry.bsky.social•4 days ago

And Hummers.

thefred.bsky.social•4 days ago

See, and this was anachronistic in 1988 because the novel it was based on is from 1979 and bearer bonds were effectively banned in the US in 1982.

hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social•4 days ago

I give it 50/50 odds he demands they sell large real estate holdings in Manhattan

bananapantz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Make them buy his failing Scottish golf course.

bguizzet.bsky.social•4 days ago

katie0martin.ft.com•3 days ago

usdhuga.bsky.social•3 days ago

Because we love bearer bonds — and Val Kilmer.

chase.hulderman.me•3 days ago

No, but seriously. Did he stop learning things in the 80s? It'd explain so much.

madammem.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump doesn't like the EU, they keep saying no to him

bananadictatorship.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you were going by that place that let you eat sushi off naked models in the late 80s the choice is obvious

kiymon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Didn't he already have ambassadors talk to the EU and the EU was like "what do you even want out of this?"

ddotdisplay.bsky.social•4 days ago

Canada and Mexico are pretty high up there too

susharma.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you were going by economic importance you would rescind all tariffs.

jwirela.bsky.social•3 days ago

Remember when water flowed thru your hair in the shower and the diskotechs were full and beautiful women instinctively flocked like the salmon of Capistrano. Those were the days, smut tariffs on Time Square. Gas was like gold. K cars...get em while their hot.

jamiehall.cc•4 days ago

Um excuse me, Australia is top of both lists unless I’m very much mistaken

chuckgoat.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you started by how easy it could have been, Canada and Mexico.

shoulderoforion.bsky.social•4 days ago

"geopolitical" whoa man you're really gonna piss him off with those big elite nonsense words

tobiasharris.bsky.social•4 days ago

My guess it has more to do with a) they haven't threatened any retaliation and b) they are really eager to talk.

sunshipballon.bsky.social•4 days ago

he may actually think it's the 1980s

bft.wtf•4 days ago

He really wanted to negotiate with them back in his 2000 campaign

mrcheeze.github.io•4 days ago

And the same delusional ideas about trade gaps!

tacticus.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's amazing how he's just mentally stuck decades ago. Amazing and horrifying.

khatunjessicabeki.org•4 days ago

Maybe because theyre the only country that will take this mildly seriously

un5toppabl0.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nah it's because Japan has no military so they know not all options can be on the table!

skyethelimit.bsky.social•4 days ago

thefred.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep, exactly. Japan had 10x the GDP of China when he last learnt anything new (1987).

bananadictatorship.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Our people look at the next fiscal quarter. The Japanese look at the next quarter century”

moxfyre.bsky.social•4 days ago

If he had "terminal 80s brain" on immigration I'd be a lot happier…

boaconstrictor.bsky.social•4 days ago

I feel like we could end the whole trade war tomorrow if he could just get that damn piano from Casablanca he lost the auction on to a Japanese bid in '88

philipaubin.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/philipaubin.bsky.social/post/3lmzat4cqd22y

francoismarechal.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is exactly the same problem I have with early researchers: they consider the progress they made through their own learning to be a scientific contribution.