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Trump Wanders in Circles During Japan Visit

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Andrew Egger take on Trump’s bizarre Japan visit — the wandering, the salutes, the confusion — and what it says about a president who no longer seems to know where he is, or what he’s doing.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Andrew Eger, and the president of the United States is lost in Japan.

0:11.2

I don't know. It's not an amber alert. What's the alert they put out for old folks who go missing from the old folks home?

0:17.1

Because the president is very old and very confused, Andrew.

0:21.9

Is it a silver alert?

0:23.1

Is that what it is?

0:24.0

I've never actually even heard of this.

0:25.3

Is there a special color for elderly people?

0:27.9

There's a special alert for when elderly folks go missing.

0:30.3

Some said it's in a year.

0:31.0

I mean, let's just get right to the video because I want people to see what the president

0:35.9

of the United States looks like as he is being escorted around the

0:40.2

room by the Japanese Prime Minister, Sanai Tagaiichi.

0:46.1

So she gestures him down and brings him over and is guiding him.

0:53.0

And he's just walking up towards the dudes.

0:55.5

So here's right.

0:56.2

Here's where I stand, right?

0:58.0

Wait, okay.

0:59.2

I'll go over here.

1:00.3

The shoulders are hunched.

1:02.3

Shoulders are hunched.

1:03.8

Just walking in a circle.

1:06.9

Now he's going to come down the line with the color guard and just salute, you know,

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