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question everything

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Fri Mar 20, 2026, 07:35 PM 13 hrs ago

As I saw the picture of the prime minister of Japan, polite but uncomfortable, sitting in the gilded room

I was thinking that I will love to see all the vans driving away carrying all the gaudy gilded stuff.

Will he take it to his grave?

I doubt that future presidents, even R, would want to keep this embarrassment. And, please, melt all the dollar ions.

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As I saw the picture of the prime minister of Japan, polite but uncomfortable, sitting in the gilded room (Original Post) question everything 13 hrs ago OP
Besides his boorish remark, it's been a while since I'd seen all the Excessively Overdone Glitz! electric_blue68 13 hrs ago #1
'Profound idiot': Nicolle Wallace struggles to process Trump's shock joke to Japanese PM LetMyPeopleVote 12 hrs ago #2

electric_blue68

(26,811 posts)
1. Besides his boorish remark, it's been a while since I'd seen all the Excessively Overdone Glitz!
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 07:43 PM
13 hrs ago

I felt like I was aethetically
"slapped" in the face with that geegawk over the fireplace mantle! Not to mention the rest of it!

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,226 posts)
2. 'Profound idiot': Nicolle Wallace struggles to process Trump's shock joke to Japanese PM
Fri Mar 20, 2026, 08:30 PM
12 hrs ago

trump does not have a sense of humor and is a major league sexist asshole

'Profound idiot': Nicolle Wallace struggles to process Trump's shock joke to Japanese PM www.rawstory.com/nicolle-wall...
Oh man! No joking about Nagasaki and Hiroshima being the double tap that ended WW2?
He's obtuse. And acutely moronic.

Ray Bannatyne (@mrfoo123.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T22:56:15.128Z

https://www.rawstory.com/nicolle-wallace-trump-japan/

MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace had a frank reaction on Thursday after President Donald Trump made a jaw-dropping comment that shocked people inside the Oval Office during a White House meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Wallace was visibly stunned after discussing Trump's attempted joke that clearly left the room uncomfortable when a reporter asked why Trump hadn't warned his allies that the U.S.-Israeli military strikes were coming.

"One thing, you don't want to signal too much when we go in," Trump said. "We went in very hard and we didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

Wallace watched the video playback and commented on Trump, asking her panel to share their thoughts.

"I struggle every minute of every day with platforming him, one, I should do it all day because it shows what a profound idiot he is," Wallace said. "But but two, we were on other sides. This is a question about why didn't you read in your allies? And he says, we didn't know what our adversary was going to do. I mean, David Frum, what do you even, how's your brain doing?"


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