President Donald Trump is on a six-day trip to Asia that Democrats say he should have scrapped amid the government shutdown. See his trip in photos.

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TRUMP TRAVELS TO JAPAN: President Donald Trump has arrived in Japan, the second stop on his three-country Asia tour. He met with Emperor Naruhito in the evening, and will have a bilateral meeting tomorrow with newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Mike Pence's handwritten notes from Jan. 6, 2021, quoted Donald Trump saying the vice president would "go down as a wimp" and urging him to block certification of the 2020 presidential election. The notes,

President Donald Trump is involved in planning for a major new monument in Washington, DC: a triumphal arch to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary, marking his latest effort to impose his style and tastes on the nation’s capital.

Reasons for pessimism are clear. Time and again, Trump has ripped up negotiations on a whim—most recently ending trade talks and hiking import levies on Canada by 10% in response to an anti-tariff ad published by the government of Ontario.

The meeting between the two leaders is part of an effort to strengthen the trade relationship between the U.S. and Japan.