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KOI-GATE: CNN Deceptively Edits Japan Video To Show Trump Fish Faux Pas

Emily Zanotti

Early Monday morning, CNN posted a video of what they believed was a horrific faux pas on the part of President Donald Trump, now visiting Japan — but the network, whose new slogan is “just facts,” appears to have deliberately failed to tell the whole story.

As Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Akasaka palace in Tokyo on Monday, they were given boxes of food to feed the palace’s Koi fish, considered a de rigeur activity, and one which confers certain blessings. According to the CNN video, which focused only on the president, Trump shoveled a few spoonfuls of fish food into the pond before unceremoniously — and wrongly — dumping his entire box of food directly into the water.

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