Trade Deals, Red Carpets And A Gold Crown: Takeaways From Trump’s Asia Trip

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

President Trump recently returned from a week-long trip to Asia. We discuss the president’s speech to military troops in Japan, what came out of Trump’s highly watched meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, and the fact that all of this happened during a month-long federal government shutdown.

This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, and national security correspondent Greg Myre.

This podcast was produced by Bria Suggs and edited by Rachel Baye.

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0:52.6	Hi, this is Steve Thickleberg from Fullerton, California, but checking
0:55.9	in from Tokyo, Japan, where I am finishing up a nine-day trip with my daughter, Kalen. This
1:01.6	podcast was recorded at 10.06 a.m. on Monday, November 3rd. Things may have changed by the time you hear it,
1:10.0	but Kalin and I will be home in Fullerton, probably eating a big slice of pizza.
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