The G20 begins in Osaka, Japan, against the MASSIVE backdrop of the U.S-China geopolitical and economic confrontation.  As the barking spiders jump stupid in Miami, the real center of world focus is on Osaka, Japan and President Trump -vs- Chairman Xi Jinping.   There are tens-of-trillions at stake. – G20 Website –

The schedule for President Trump reflects a history of some serious background work that has led to this moment in time. Two years after the original ‘golden ticket’ tour of Asia, President Trump is reaffirming with strategic partners (PM Abe) and delivering key messages to those who yet have a role to play (PM Modi).

It is worth paying close attention to the economic nationalist coalition that President Trump has carefully assembled. [Watch Abe, Modi and Bolsonaro.] Remember, Osaka is 11 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

8:25am Friday JDT / 7:25pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT arrives at INTEX Osaka, Osaka, Japan

♦8:30am Friday JDT / 7:30pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. Osaka, Japan

♦ 9:15am Friday JDT / 8:15pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in a raretrilateral meeting with the Prime Minister Shinzo abe of Japan and Prime Minister Modi of the Republic of India, Osaka, Japan.  This is the second trilateral with Modi and Abe.

♦9:35am Friday JDT / 8:35pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister Modi of the Republic of India, Osaka, Japan.

10:30am Friday JDT / 9:30pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Angela Merkel, Osaka, Japan

11:15am Friday JDT / 10:15pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in an official welcome and family photo, Osaka, Japan

12:00pm Friday JDT / 11:00pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in the G20 leaders’ special event on the Digital Economy, Osaka, Japan

12:20pm Friday JDT / 11:20pm Thursday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in a G20 working lunch on the Global Economy, Trade, and Investment, Osaka, Japan

2:00pm Friday JDT / 1:00am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, Osaka, Japan

♦3:30pm Friday JDT / 2:30am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in a bilateral meeting with the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Osaka, Japan

4:05pm Friday JDT / 3:05am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT departs INTEX Osaka en route to the hotel in Osaka, Japan

4:25pm Friday JDT / 3:25am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT arrives at the Hotel, Osaka, Japan

6:15pm Friday JDT / 5:15am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT departs the RON en route to Osaka Geihinkan, Osaka, Japan

6:30pm Friday JDT / 5:30am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT arrives at Osaka Geihinkan cultural theater, Osaka, Japan

6:35pm Friday JDT / 5:35am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT participates in the G20 cultural program, Osaka, Japan

9:05pm Friday JDT / 8:05am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT departs Osaka Geihinkan en route to the Hotel, Osaka, Japan

9:20pm Friday JDT / 8:20am Friday EDT – THE PRESIDENT arrives at the Hotel, Osaka, Japan

~ G-20 Day One Concludes ~

President Trump is taking ‘splodey-head-making to new artistic levels of agitprop courtesy of Meme artist Carpe Donktum.  Very Funny:

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What really drives the fury of the left, and their allies in the media, is how President Trump has broken the stranglehold they had over pop culture.  President Trump knows how to use funny and snarky agitprop to drive them bananas.

The moonbats simply cannot cope and President Trump supporters are laughing at the ridiculous reactions.   Best President ever….

Due to the size of the field, the first Democrat presidential primary debate takes place over two nights: tonight Wednesday, June 26, and Thursday, June 27, in Miami.

NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo are hosting the debate and hold exclusive rights to broadcast from 9pm EST to 11 p.m EST on both nights.

The moderators for the debate are: NBC News’ Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd; MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, and Telemundo’s José Diaz-Balart.

The candidates for the first night are: Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro; Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas; Former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland; Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City; Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio; Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii; Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey; Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; and Washington Governor Jay Inslee.

If you are a communist, socialist, communal activist; or if your hobbies include sitting around a campfire picking parasites off your friends; then grab your sustainable algae cakes and consider this an open discussion thread.

Or if you are just looking for a laugh by watching Moonbats howl, well, that’s OK too.

Chopper pressers are the best pressers.  As President Trump departs the White House en route to Osaka Japan for the G20 summit, the president delivers answers questions from the press pool on current events.  [Video and Partial Rough Transcript]

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[partial rough transcript] President Trump – “I spoke with Nancy Pelosi and we had some conversations having to do with the bill for humanitarian aide at the border for the children. We’re moving along very well with the bipartisan bill in the senate, spoke to a lot of people and we’re doing very well, we’re very far along. The House is getting it together with the Senate to get something done. It’s humanitarian aide it’s very important, and I think a lot of people are starting to realize I was right when I said there was a the crisis at the border, it wasn’t a manufactured crisis.”

“I’m heading to Japan, Osaka, and were going to be meeting with a lot of people from different countries many of whom have been taking advantage of the United States, but not so much anymore, in fact not at all anymore.”

[In response to inaud. Q]: “The Mueller things never stops, there was no collusion … it never ends it goes on and on … the criminal activity was on the other side …. With the insurance policy by Strzok and his lover Page … At what point does it end? It’s a disgrace. No obstruction! No collusion! Now the democrats want a do over. They had a do over in the House, that didn’t work, we had a do over in the Senate, that didn’t work.”

Q: Who will you be meeting with at G20?

A: “I’m meeting with Russia, I’m meeting with China, I’m meeting with many countries … We’re meeting with China, just so you know China has been paying us billion sand billions of dollars, before I got here they never paid us 10 cents.

Q on Iran

A: Iran can do whatever they want, it’s fine, I have plenty of time. Iran is in economic distress, they’re in an economic disaster right now. Whatever they want is fine with me, I have all the time in the world. They could solve it quickly or they could solve it 10 years right now .. In the meantime they have very strong sanctions and they deserve those sanctions, they have to do what’s right for their people, but I don’t think they care for their people. They’re selfish and they’re stupid.

Q: Will you be meeting with Kim Jong Un?

A: I’ll be meeting with, uh, a lot of other people, not quite him, but I may be speaking to him in a different form. I’ll be going to South Korea after G20 and I’ll be there for about a day, we have a lot of meetings planned with a lot of different countries.

[A full transcript will follow]

In the dynamic of President Trump confronting Chairman Xi over Chinese trade and manufacturing practices there are critical members of the U.S. team, each with a role to play.  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are the most important members.

Secretary Ross explains the position of the U.S. team as they head to the G20. WATCH:

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As we discussed yesterday, Chinese anxiety is off-the-charts.  When China gets into this high-anxiety disposition, they immediately -predictably- drop the Panda mask, and lash-out with Red Dragon antagonisms.  This is happening right now.

“There are some inappropriate activities underway by the Chinese. They must cease. If they do, if we make some redressing of the trade imbalance, then that’s a reasonable deal for both parties.”  ~ Secretary Wilbur Ross

In previous administrations the economic/trade teams were filled with think-tank wonks and esoteric public officials.   Their response to the Red Dragon was always from a position of inherent fear combined with political evaluations.  This is the historic frame-of-reference for Beijing, a view of inherent weakness.  This history also contributes to why China is perplexed by the Trump administration.

In the Trump administration the economic/trade teams are directed by dragon-slayers from the private sector.  Business giants, billionaires, who are familiar with the granular details of negotiation and comfortable with adversarial battles where billions of dollars can make or break a deal.  There is no position of structural fear or political ramification at the apex level of business dealing.  The fights are on the merits of the position(s).

As President Trump has moved from negotiation to confrontation, Beijing’s leadership is starting to realize their opponent isn’t their typical weak U.S. government negotiators; nor is it the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who will cut the ‘deal’ for their Wall Street clients and DC lobbyists regardless of Main Street’s best interests.

As a direct consequence, the team around Chairman Xi have a much more difficult time trying to outwit the U.S. delegation.   President Trump has brought “killers” from the U.S. corporate and business community, into the battle – to fight on behalf of America.

Megan Rapinoe is the co-captain of the U.S. women’s national soccer team and a rabid hater of President Trump.  Ms. Rapinoe refuses to sing the U.S. national anthem; kneels during ceremonies to make her hatred for America visible; and grabs every microphone to tell the media about her politics in an effort to increase her resistance credentials.

The age-old axiom is: ‘be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it”. Today, President Trump brilliantly responded to Ms. Rapinoe.  First, by calling out her arrogance in declaring victory before she even played the World Cup matches; and secondly, by inviting the entire team to the White House “win or lose”.

The pressure is now upon Ms. Rapinoe. That pressure overlays a preexisting, unstable and tenuous psychological condition related to her tribal self-identification and commercial aspirations. This dynamic is a recipe for implosion. It will not end well for her.

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President Trump calls in to Maria Bartiromo for an extensive interview on multiple subjects.  The president discusses his perspective on Mueller testifying; the state of the economy; the upcoming G20 talks with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping and the status of the trade negotiations; the status of tariffs; and the U.S-Mexico border issues.

On China, President Trump doesn’t sound like he’s willing to make any concessions or retreat on any tariffs.  “They want to make a deal more than I do”, he said.