{"id":51291,"date":"2024-04-24T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51291"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T05:57:44","slug":"trump-meets-former-japanese-prime-minister-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51291","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets former Japanese prime minister in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump met with former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso in New York on Tuesday, part of the Republican&#8217;s shadow diplomacy as he campaigns to return to the White House in November&#8217;s elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump welcomed Aso to Trump Tower, one of the real estate magnate&#8217;s properties in New York, where he is currently on trial accused of falsifying business records to cover up an affair with an adult film star.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is a highly respected man in Japan and beyond, somebody that I&#8217;ve liked and I&#8217;ve known,&#8221; Trump said of Aso at the start of their meeting, according to a video posted on social media by his aides.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We like each other and we&#8217;ll be talking about Japan and the United States right now and lots of other things also,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s not in court, Trump has been talking to foreign officials and criticizing the policies of President Joe Biden, his rival who defeated him in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the Republican nominee-in-waiting has met with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Polish President Andrzej Duda and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump met with former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso in New York on Tuesday, part of the Republican&#8217;s shadow diplomacy as he campaigns to return to the White House in November&#8217;s elections. Trump welcomed Aso to Trump Tower, one of the real estate magnate&#8217;s properties in New York, where he is currently on trial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1259],"class_list":["post-51291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-meets-former-japanese-prime-minister-in-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}