There is a lot that President Trump seems to misunderstand about foreign policy — added to that list, according to a new report, should be confusion over time zones. Put simply, the president seems to not quite get, or perhaps care, that when it’s daytime in the United States, it’s the middle of the night on the other side of the world.
On several occasions during the first year of his presidency, for example, Trump reportedly wanted to get on the phone with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at midday Washington time, or the middle of the night in Japan. When it’s noon in D.C., it’s 1 a.m. in Tokyo.
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