{"id":1922124,"date":"2023-05-01T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T16:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-opens-up-on-assassination-of-former-japanese-prime-minister-a-very-sad-day-in-my-life\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T16:14:58","slug":"donald-trump-opens-up-on-assassination-of-former-japanese-prime-minister-a-very-sad-day-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-opens-up-on-assassination-of-former-japanese-prime-minister-a-very-sad-day-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Opens Up On Assassination Of Former Japanese Prime Minister: \u2018A Very Sad Day In My Life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-opens-up-on-assassination-of-former-japanese-prime-minister-a-very-sad-day-in-my-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Trump Remembers Friendship with Shinzo Abe<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump recently spoke about his friendship with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during an interview on Fox News\u2019 \u201cLife, Liberty &#038; Levin\u201d with host Mark Levin. The two men were close and had \u201ca lot of correspondence between\u201d them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a handsome man. He was a dignified man. He loved his country,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe was somebody I just got along with great, he loved golf. We played golf. He \u2014 we played with Ernie Ells in this country was a big great golfer, and somebody respected highly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbe loved Japan, and he loved the people. And he respected the United States,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI dealt with Abe, and I got to know him really well. And he was high quality. I think he was going to reemerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that it was a \u201cvery sad day\u201d in his life when Abe was assassinated last summer.<\/p>\n<h3>Transcript of the Interview<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>MARK LEVIN: Mr. President, the horrific tragedy in Japan, where Abe was assassinated with a handmade gun. He was a great friend of the United States and apparently was a very, very close friend of yours.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You have a lot of correspondence between the two of you tell us about him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DONALD TRUMP: So, he was a handsome guy, who\u2019s the first person to call me I want to meet I want to meet we actually met before I was at the White House, which in theory isn\u2019t appropriate. They say because you know, somebody else is running the country. You\u2019re not supposed to.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We didn\u2019t know that. But he just wanted to meet. He was already on the plane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He literally \u2014 we said, you know, maybe you could wait a couple of weeks. But he was already on the plane. I got to know him very early.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He was a handsome man. He was a dignified man. He loved his country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He was somebody I just got along with great, he loved golf. We played golf. He we played with Ernie Ells in this country was a big great golfer, and somebody respected highly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And when I went to Japan, it was Matsuyama; Matsuyama had, you know, is the great Japanese champion who won the Masters is great player. And I got there I saw my sponsor, you know, rated one of the top couple in the world. Big strong guy and I said, we are playing with him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is my honor. To have him play with us. And then I went up to Matsuyama where he drops his putter he\u2019s practicing putting on before we got there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thousands of presses, by the way, thousands of presses. You never saw anything like it. Michael Jackson used to tell me that probably has some good stuff on Michael to Michael Jackson used to tell me that and say, Michael, is it always this way?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would God he\u2019d say, no, no, Japan has worse meaning for the paparazzi thousands, But I walk into the green I shake his hand drops his Matsuyama that\u2019s very beautiful, the customer and everything else. Little funny sir only forgot people because most people wouldn\u2019t. You know, really on his head.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019s a very strong person, very strong physically for it\u2019s about long. And so, to hit the ball long. So, I\u2019m up there and thousands of photographers I\u2019m on the first tee hitting a ball.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I take a swing and hit it perfectly down the middle beautiful drive right down the middle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cornell-responds-after-professor-threatened-to-fail-maskless-students\/\" title=\"Cornell Responds After Professor Threatened To Fail Maskless Students\">pretty long<\/a> by any standard, the longest per age, OK, but pretty long. And everybody was very impressed. And then this guy gets up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And he ripped it. And his ball was starting to get airborne as it reached. And I said that\u2019s a very, but we had a great time and Abe loved it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But Abe loved Japan, and he loved the people. And he respected the United States. And we had a very unfair trade deal with Japan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They took advantage of us like everybody, everybody does, OK. There wasn\u2019t a country where we had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-affleck-my-search-for-humility-means-i-have-to-recognize-that-we-have-our-own-governance-issues-in-this-country-before-we-cast-aspersions-on-the-governance-of-others\/\" title=\"Ben Affleck: My \u2018Search For Humility\u2019 Means \u2018I Have To Recognize That We Have Our Own Governance Issues In This Country Before We Cast Aspersions On The Governance Of Others\u2019\">fair deal<\/a>. South Korea was horrible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, many. I changed the South Korea deal. I changed it Japan changed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I dealt with Abe, and I got to know him really well. And he was high quality. I think he was going to reemerge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, he actually left because he was quite sick. But he recovered. And I think it was actually going to reemerge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But think of it, they barely have a gun in the whole country. And this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-opens-up-on-assassination-of-former-japanese-prime-minister-a-very-sad-day-in-my-life\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Opens Up On Assassination Of Former Japanese Prime Minister: \u2018A Very Sad Day In My Life\u2019\">crazy man made<\/a> a gun. And it was a big gun too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And Abe was assassinated. And that was a very sad day in my life. Because of all of the leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You know, I hate to say this, because I got along with a lot of them. But I really maybe had the best relationship with IBM, Japan. He was willing to redo the trade deals, he really had no choice because I said, look, either you do it or we\u2019re not going to do business.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Watch the Interview<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump on the assassination of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: \u201cThat was a very sad day in my life.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nTS5GeLuYK\">pic.twitter.com\/nTS5GeLuYK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAGAIncWarRoom\/status\/1652838035371835393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-former-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-feared-dead-after-being-shot\"><strong>Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe Assassinated While Giving Speech<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>special bond.\u201d Trump responded by saying that he and Abe had a great relationship and that they had a lot of fun together. He also mentioned that Abe was a strong leader who did a lot for Japan and that he was deeply saddened by his untimely death. The former president went on to say that he would always remember Abe as a great friend and a true ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1922125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7197,6286,7660,4657,24223,3848,8521,8522,18713,3634],"class_list":["post-1922124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-a","tag-assassination","tag-day","tag-donald","tag-japanese","tag-life","tag-minister","tag-prime","tag-sad","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}