Trump Travels To Asia With The Government Still Shutdown
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MS NOW, Ali Velshi
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It's Sunday, October 26th, and you're watching Velshi on MSNBC. I'm Charles Coleman, Jr. filling in for my friend and colleague Ali Velshi, and we've got a lot to talk about. |
| 0:18.1 | Now, it's 10 a.m. here in New York, which means that in Malaysia, it's 10 p.m. |
| 0:22.8 | And that's where Donald Trump is right now on the first leg of a three-nation tour through |
| 0:26.7 | Asia. Earlier, he participated in the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. |
| 0:33.4 | He also attended the signing of a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia. |
| 0:38.3 | And later today, he'll head to Japan where he'll meet with the new Japanese prime minister |
| 0:42.9 | as well as the Japanese emperor. |
| 0:46.0 | After that, he's headed to South Korea for another summit. |
| 0:49.6 | Trump is also expected to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping while in South Korea on Thursday. |
| 0:55.7 | It'll be their first meeting since June of 2019 when they met on the sidelines of the G20 |
| 1:00.5 | summit in Japan during Trump's first term. That meeting also came during a trade war. |
| 1:06.8 | Now, this week's anticipated sit down comes as the current trade war between the U.S. |
| 1:12.6 | and China continues to escalate. |
| 1:19.6 | Trump recently threatened new additional tariffs of 100% on Chinese goods starting November 1st. |
| 1:23.0 | Now, that's on top of the 30% tariff currently in place. |
| 1:32.7 | Although this morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on NBC's Meet the Press that he believes a deal will be made to avert that new 100% tariff. |
| 1:37.6 | The secretary did not, however, address Trump's new tariff threat aimed at Canada. |
| 1:45.7 | Yesterday, Trump posted on social media that he was going to add an additional 10% tariff on Canada because of a Canadian TV commercial that he didn't like. Notably, Trump's six-day Asia trip is the first time a |
| 1:52.8 | sitting American president has traveled overseas during a government shutdown. During the 2013 |
| 1:58.0 | government shutdown, President Obama skipped the very same summit that Trump is currently attending. |
| 2:03.2 | Obama opted instead to stay in the nation's capital in order to work towards reopening the government. |
| 2:09.7 | That shutdown lasted 16 days. |
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