Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

To have power and words have consequences.

I'm Adam Levine, Katie's on assignment.

Joe, you and Katie usually ask the questions, but this week we figured we'd take you back

to your White House press secretary days and ask you some questions.

Our topic today is the Trump family's excellent adventure 2019 taxpayer funded world tour.

It started Memorial Day weekend in Japan.

There was a brief stop back home to threaten Mexico, then off to Europe to offend the

British, over to Ireland to make a few bucks, and then on to France to use one of the US

military's most hallowed burial grounds as a prop and a backdrop for a Fox News interview.

But let's start with Japan.

There was confusion over a North Korean missile test, a happy Memorial Day wish to Japanese

troops, and finally a bizarre attempt to hide a United States Navy destroyer from the

commander in chief.

Joe, what happened in Japan?

And why does it matter?

Well, let's put it in some context first.

For presidents, these foreign trips fall into two categories.

The obligatory ones where you have to go and sit with 15 or 20 other leaders and some

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