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Media Cherry-Picks Trump Quote To Claim President Insulted Japanese Auto-Makers

Emily Zanotti

President Donald Trump’s first official state visit to Asia is going fairly swimmingly (though there might be a few overfed Koi that would disagree — literally), but that doesn’t mean the media is at all interested in portraying Trump’s visit to Japan as a roaring success. In fact, they’ve been bending over backwards to tell a totally different story.

On Monday, Trump appeared with a host of Japanese and American business leaders at a conference in Tokyo. While there, Trump made what appeared to be a joke at the expense of Japanese auto-makers, which the media — including CNN, which has already deceptively edited a video of Trump feeding the palace fish — claimed demonstrated Trump’s ignorance on the subject of car manufacturing.

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