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Protected by strict tra traditional rules guiding nearly every aspect. they live and train together and everything from what they wear to when they eat and sleep is minutely controlled. only the elite few will ever be a grand champion. and now they get the trump trophy. they got that beautiful trophy which they will have hopefully for many hundreds of years and will be there for the sumo championships. donald trump with sumo is there in 60 seconds. there in 60 seconds. is what you ve always wanted. no compromise. twice the results. guaranteed. miracle-gro performance organics. ....
And i think that that will play very strongly when he returns home and as he prepares for the big his possible re-election in 2020. inderjeet parmar, stay with us here because we re looking at these live images, if we can take them again, of the trumps and abes sitting together for dinner at 6:17 p.m. in tokyo. if we re able to listen in, let s do so to see what they are saying. personally i think won t have anybody get me in trouble. so we brought that beautiful trophy which they will have many for hundreds of years. and that will be their trophy for the championship, sumo championships. and i think it was very nice. and we really enjoyed being there. that was something to see these great athletes, because they really are athletes. it is a very ancient sport. and i ve always wanted to see sumo wrestling. so it was really great. ....
The u.s. president gave the winner a special trophy called the president s cup. and after the sumo experience, the trumps and abes met for dinner at a tokyo restaurant. mr. trump used that occasion to reflect on what he saw that day. the prime minister and i talked a lot today about trade and military and various other things. i think we had a very productive day. and tomorrow likewise will be a very productive day. all right. they golfed and they went to see a sumo wrestling match. we want to talk about that with a sumo expert and former commentator and columnist with the japan times. mark, thanks for joining us. thank you for having me. we know that the president is a fan of professional wrestling in the u.s. that has nothing to do with sumo wrestling. we know that. all together completely different. but it is even sacred in the japanese culture. we hear that the president was ....
absolutely. sumo it depends who you ask, but it has roots going back at least 1500 years. maybe people say 2,000. and only about 260 years ago, it became an organized sport 37 it is it is not the national sport, but it is a major event. there are six tournaments a year, three in tokyo. this is called the summer tournament. a bit rml learly, but called th summer tournament. and they sell out with 11,000 people in the stadium every single day. it is a huge sport. it is live on tv. the sumo wrestlers are the top baseball players, the top soccer players of japan. and they are all household names. except the guy that mr. trump presented the trophy to. he is the lowest ranked wrestler for many decades to win it. it is interesting, i understand people say that they don t like the president chose ....