Trumps remarks sounded tone-deaf in English, they reportedly sounded particularly worse in Japanese

[kpete]

While his remarks sounded a bit tone-deaf in English, they reportedly sounded particularly worse in the Japanese translation:



more if you can stand it:
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/you-cant-take-him-anywhere.html

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1. omg -- "it was not pleasant for them". having 2 nuclear bombs dropped on you is "not pleasant".

you know he does this crap on purpose.

he's a troll, it's what he does.

[MineralMan]

4. Yup. He went there.

I knew he would.

[likesmountains 52]

2. Good Lord...shove a shoe in his mouth...

[Horse with no Name]

3. we are being forced to endure through this so rich people can steal from the treasury.

that is what is gross.

[Salviati]

5. I'm sure the Japanese would prefer it...

... If we just went back to vomiting on them instead of the shit coming out of this guys mouth.

[Leith]

6. It Makes Me Want to Cry

I lived in Japan for 3 years in the early 1980s. Not on a military base - in suburban Tokyo, in real Japanese apartments and a house with tatami mats on the floor, speaking Japanese to all but close friends from English speaking countries.

Japan and her people have proven themselves over and over after WW II. They have reached one of the highest levels of morality, achievement, and being downright civilized that very few others on this planet even thought of being. Now that orange monster comes along and tears apart the allied relationship of the past 70+ years and insults those who are just plain better than he ever could be.

It's just too damn much to take.