What the hell triggered Trump to go after Japan???

[Siwsan]

Seriously - does he have a check list of allies he thinks it is necessary to offend?

[smirkymonkey]

1. What did he do now?

Do you have a link?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. This:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-japan-sony_us_57a638d8e4b03ba680128d39

[Siwsan]

5. It is so nonsensical, I can't even begin to explain but I put in a link to HuffPo.

Donald Trump: If The U.S. Is Attacked, Japan ‘Can Sit Home And Watch Sony Television’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-japan-sony_us_57a638d8e4b03ba680128d39?kjnyuus0pf95uq5mi&

[smirkymonkey]

13. Thanks.

Possibly the most self destructive man that ever lived. He's in such a downward spiral there is no hope for redemption.

[edhopper]

2. and he ranted about them watching

their Sony TVs.

what decade does he think he is in?

does he still think Sony's are cheap "made in Japan" electronics. And we still have American made TVs?

[Siwsan]

9. I'm just surprised that he didn't bring up Godzilla

I'm baffled.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

44. You realize that Mothra is a Mormon.

[rjsquirrel]

10. Straight up racism

Took me back to the days when a Japanese car was called a "rice burner" in the Midwest when Japan kicked Detroit's ass for quality and price in the 80s.

Sony makes some of the best video equipment in the world, Donald. Cheap TVs are made in Malaysia and Mexico. Anything actually made in Japan is as well crafted as *anything* made in the US and Germany. And priced accordingly.

[edhopper]

14. Harley riders

still call Japanese bikes rice burners.

Agree about Japanese quality.

[MineralMan]

33. Usually as they're watching them fade away in the distance

after they've passed the Harley riders. But, hey, Harleys have louder pipes, so there is that.

[edhopper]

43. and they paid a lot more

for their bike

[jcgoldie]

4. What triggers him to do or say anything?

His thought process is a game of craps.

[Siwsan]

6. That makes about as much "sense" as anything, I guess

[imanamerican63]

7. Scary!

He could the candidate who starts a world war & never made into the Oval Office!

[randome]

11. Maybe he's pissed that Pokemon Go gets more respect than he does.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[pinboy3niner]

15. Manafort told him people want a Pikachu taxes

[randome]

25. The best puns are those that take a moment to process.

But then I ashed furret, didn't I? (I confess: I had to Google that.)
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[malaise]

47. Too good

[GulfCoast66]

49. Wow, just Wow.

Best I have seen from you, and that is saying something.

You really know how to poke a man.

[riversedge]

52. I choose Pikachu when I play with my 4 yr old nephew. He usually wins

[Wounded Bear]

12. Bad sushi for dinner last night, maybe?

Who fucking knows what drives the guy. Apparently it's the last thing that happened to him.

[JHB]

16. Dunno. Did he lose a lawsuit to Japanese investors back in the 80s?

[sarae]

18. Probably.

Or maybe he was rejected by a Japanese woman. lol

[Warpy]

17. Sony?

They're watching Korean TVs made in China the same way we are.

Trump has obviously spent the last 30 years waddling around, kissing his own ass and missing everything going on in the world.

[sarcasmo]

20. I've always had good luck with Sony products, excellent quality.

Pretty sure this is Orange Hitler being Racist.

[Warpy]

22. Racist and clueless about the world around him.

I've had such lousy luck with competitors that I'll insist on Sony DVD players. I'm right with you there.

And Trump is still a racist dimwit.

[NightWatcher]

19. He caught a showing of Tora Tora Tora on AMC?

And it pissed him off.

[beachbumbob]

21. What triggered?.....just classic unhinged trump...the con man

[rufus dog]

23. Hiroshima

August 6th 1945.

Likely saw something on Fox about Hiroshima, that lead him into the Japan rant.

[kestrel91316]

24. That's what I'm thinking. Japan caught his attention and

he decided that they are still our enemy because you know.......Hiroshima.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. He sees Japanese as weak because they banned the bomb

[Ms. Toad]

37. Can't believe it took most of an hour for anyone to recognize the connection.

He's been talking about nuclear bombs the last few days; the anniversary of uur next to last use of nuclear weapons against a country was yesterday - of course he's going to trash Japan. (The content of his talk is also a pretty direct reference to the constitutional anti-war stance that arose out of Japan's experience as the target of the only nuclear weapon attacks on a country and its civilians.)

[demigoddess]

53. most republicans are still fighting WWII or feeding off the victory they think we won

singlehandedly. They do not move beyond WWII in their minds.

[liberal N proud]

26. Just another group that he needed to offend.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Yes...he's got a list of people to offend :) Surprised he hasn't turned on the

non-educated voters (I love them, they love me !! )....since they are breaking to Clinton now. Perhaps that would vie for "new low". "Stupid people are so stupid. I am smart, I went to best school in the country."

[JoePhilly]

28. Maybe he saw a clip of the Olympics on TV ...

... and there was a Japanese athlete on the screen.

That's probably all it would take.

[lapucelle]

29. It was the anniversary of Hiroshima

so he may have had Japan on his mind.

I also read that Trump said that the Japanese constitution forbids the deployment of Japanese troops in foreign lands.

Therefore (according to Trump), if Japan were attacked, we would send troops to help them. If we were attacked, Japan could just stay home and watch their Sony televisions.

This all presupposes that Trump is correct in his reading of the treaty AND the Japanese constitution.

[lancer78]

34. I don't think that is correct

as they supply troops to the U.N.

[lapucelle]

35. This was Trump's interpretation, so it wouldn't surprise me if it were wrong.

I have a feeling that the close reading of complex legal documents is outside Donald's skill set.

I edited my post to clarify.

[lancer78]

36. Japan has supplied 272

troops to the U.N. Or about the same number as the United Kingdom.

[muriel_volestrangler]

38. Their UN forces are more or less non-combatant

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces#Peacekeeping

The treaty with the US was written long before that, so it's true it's about joint defence only in the area of Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Mutual_Cooperation_and_Security_between_the_United_States_and_Japan

But a new agreement for full mutual defence with the USA would requite changing the constitution, and that brings up the objections of China and South Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Constitution

It's a tricky diplomatic situation, and not something Trump would have a clue how to negotiate, or what the stakes would be.

[white_wolf]

48. Japanese constitution?

The man can't even understand the constitution of the country he's trying to lead.

[Oneironaut]

30. Rabies.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

[Fozzledick]

31. Japan still has an antagonistic relationship with Russia.

Japan started a war with Russia in 1904 over their influence on the Asian mainland, and Russia grabbed some Japanese islands during the second World War and refused to give them back. They're both still pissed at each other.

Perhaps Putin is writing Trump's foreign policy agenda.

[applegrove]

39. He has an original thought: NATO needs to do more and he is so in love

with himself that he follows it wherever it goes.. all the way to Japan. He would be the anti NATO president. He would self indulge his own original ideas the whole time he was president. To prove to himself he is a genius. Which is what Putin called him. And is how Putin has control of him. Which makes him not a genius but a patsy. Like I've said before: Trump should be a muse. Not a president.

[louis-t]

40. More like a hit list.

Very dangerous man.

[JI7]

41. blames them for his business failures

[tonyt53]

42. Probably meant Vietnam. He is still pissed off at them after he served there during the war.

WAIT A MINUTE!!!!! Trump was a draft dodger.

[Rocknrule]

45. Trump: "I'll take Jap Anus Relations for 500, Trebek"

n/t

[Rex]

46. A lot of cocaine?

[ailsagirl]

50. "Because it's there"

http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/03/george-mallory-coins-because-its-there.html

[Buckeye_Democrat]

51. He's envious of their bigger pee-pees. n/t

[Initech]

54. Donald Trump: the best foreign policy expert.

No one is a better foreign policy expert than he is.