It takes a lot for Newsmax to cut away from a Donald Trump press conference. But that appears to have happened on Tuesday, when Trump addressed business leaders while in Japan.
“We have some great yards,” Trump said as part of the rambling rant, bragging that the U.S. used to build a ship a day, during World War II.
Per Bloomberg News, Trump dined with business leaders to “tout Japanese investment in the U.S. Apple’s Tim Cook was also there, as was Salesforce Inc.’s Marc Benioff and Rakuten Group Inc.’s Hiroshi Mikitani.
“Under a trade framework reached earlier this year, Trump lowered and capped tariffs on Japanese goods in exchange for a pledge for Japan to fund $550 billion in US projects. Lutnick said the deals announced Tuesday alone could account for around $490 billion in investment, though many of the plans are preliminary and cost figures represent the upper end of possible deals,” Bloomberg stated.
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Aaron Rupar noticed that Newsmax had cut away from Trump’s speech at the start of their morning program:
even Newsmax was like 😬 and cut from Trump as he endlessly ranted and raved pic.twitter.com/eOCTGOXFxg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2025
It wasn’t Trump’s only bizarre speech of his Japan trip.
In addressing U.S. troops in Japan, the president talked about how he dislikes good-looking people.
“It comes from you people, incredible people, good-looking people—too many good-looking people,” Trump said during his speech. “I don’t like good-looking people. I never liked good people, I’ll be honest with you. I’ve never admitted that before.”
Trump to troops in Japan: “I don’t like good looking people. I never liked good looking people. I’ll be honest with you. I’ve never admitted that before. But see I’m allowed to — we won at the Supreme Court a thing based on merit. You know about that, right?” pic.twitter.com/GSFjFiAQPe
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2025
“You know, we won in the Supreme Court, a thing based on merit,” Trump added in the speech on the USS George Washington at the Yokosuka Naval Base. “You know about that right? Merit. Everything now in our country is based on merit. And that’s why I look at you and I see nothing but merit. It’s great to have a country back where we can go by merit now, we don’t go by anything else, except for talent and work and hard work.”
Photo courtesy of an X screenshot.
