also is the american economy in a dangerous crisis? gates, bezos and buffett have 5 50%. and our biggest economic, social and political issue. then first mosul fell, then raqqa. what is the so-called islamic state without a state? is radical islam dying out? i will talk to salman rushdi about that and his new novel. first, here s my take. donald trump graded his asia trip this week. not surprisingly, he thought it was a tremendous success. our great country is respected again in asia, he tweeted. all recent polling data from the region suggests the opposite. a core focus of trump s trip was japan and south korea, for example. only 17% of south koreans and 24% of japanese express confidence in him. that is down from 88% and 78%, who expressed confidence in president obama during his second term. trump s rhetoric of self interest in america first was seen by asians as a sign of retreat in contrast to chinese president xi jinping s more open, outward looking and ambitious
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Relief there s a guy called the joker, who is donald trump. sort of a variation on trump, yeah. in a deck of playing cards the only two cards that don t behave properly are the joker and the trump. trump s name is not in the book anyway. i thought i don t want the trump so i ll have the joker instead. there s this cartoon villain running for president. did you watch trump and say to yourself, if i wrote this, people wouldn t believe it? yeah. sometimes trump is stranger than fiction. totally stranger than fiction. i had dinner with my friend, andy mcewen and we agreed if we had presented this as a story to our publishers, they would have said, go away and try harder. we live in a time that is unplausible. there s a broken relationship with reality, you know.