using this to very much flattered that hugo of trump which has been his strategy basically since trump was elected to keep telling him he s a great leader he s important that japan needs him and this is the way that the administration seeks to achieve its own policy objectives. has been courting chum for quite some time has he gotten anything out of it for his country. well it s mainly an issue of damage control you know trump and this trade issue is a is a primary example of this trump basically wants to make demands of japan that the japanese don t want to give and so it s trying as hard as you can to stay on trumps the good side so that trumps demands don t become too onerous and to try to blunt therefore so in a sense it s japan feeding trumps ego in order to not