Over the course of a 53-minute address, Trump engaged in a lively back-and-forth with the soldiers and offered a mix of administration updates and bravado. He linked his administration\u2019s trade agenda to what he described as a broader mission to keep American forces out of foreign conflicts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we don\u2019t get you involved, it\u2019s a good thing,\u201d Trump told the sailors. \u201cPeople want to get you involved, but we stopped a lot of those wars based on trade. They\u2019re getting ready to fight, and we tell them: \u2018No more trade with the U.S.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
And\u00a0Trump touted news he said he\u2019d received from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that Toyota plans to invest $10 billion in new U.S. auto plants. He also said the first batch of missiles for Japan\u2019s F-35 jets would be delivered this week.<\/p>\n
Takaichi, who spoke briefly before Trump, invoked the pair\u2019s shared friendship with her predecessor, recalling Trump\u2019s 2019 visit to Yokosuka with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether once again,\u201d she said, \u201cwe reaffirm our determination to keep the Indo-Pacific free and open, as a foundation for peace and prosperity across the entire region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump worked the crowd, calling out groups by their function on the ship \u2014 the \u201cwhite shirts\u201d who handle safety, \u201cblue shirts\u201d who run equipment, and \u201cyellow shirts\u201d who direct aircraft. Each mention drew cheers from different corners of the hangar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the course of a 53-minute address, Trump engaged in a lively back-and-forth with the soldiers and offered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[160,1376,43,2454,115162,54907,44178,44,13130,7074,41,39,42,40,1215,772],"class_list":["post-245669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-americas","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-japan","tag-maritime","tag-missiles","tag-missions","tag-news","tag-safety","tag-services","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trade","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}