Where to begin.

Earlier this year, Trump withdrew from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, but he’s still annoyed by it. He reiterated as much in his meeting reports Bloomberg:

“For the last many decades, Japan has been winning. You do know that,” he said Monday. “Right now our trade with Japan is not fair and it isn’t open.”
But from there, according to the report, he dropped his knowledge about the Japanese auto industry—and by that, I mean there doesn’t appear to be much.

Let us be very clear that most of the Japanese automakers have huge manufacturing bases in America, and have for decades now. Toyota has manufacturing facilities in Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia and Texas. Honda has plants in Ohio, Indiana, Alabama and Georgia and now exports more U.S.-made cars than it imports. Subaru’s in Indiana, Nissan is in Tennessee and Alabama, and even tiny Mazda is planning to build a plant here soon—with Toyota.

If you think I’m mistaken, take a look at the fact sheet posted on Twitter by Reuters reporter David Shepardson:

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