THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

As one would say in a Rotary Club meeting

Or in a mass email from the manager to all the employees in your office 😜…things like: “The break room fridge is starting to smell really bad. Please clear your leftovers out of there on Fridays before leaving.”

LOL, that's exactly the tone of that letter 😂

this is the energy

I don’t think he understands at all how capitalized letters work

My god. I 👏🏼 CANNOT 👏🏼 EVEN👏🏼 WITH👏🏼 THE 👏🏼COMMAS👏🏼

OMFG. Incomprehensible gibberish.

Sam, I am

Don’t profane Theodor Geisl, please. I got enough problems.

Maybe Japan should bomb us this time. Or send Godzilla to munch on Florida.

Godzilla! I vote for Godzilla to defend us all from Florida!! Besides, he probably wants to come and see his cousins in the Everglades for a chat...

Does anyone proofread, or READ for that matter, in that crazy house?

Good grief, if there was ever a time to run something through an AI to check grammar, this would be it. I'm sure the translators are struggling with this one. In fact, this is so bad, I'm really starting to think that this is fake.

This dude writes like he sniffed glue all 6 years of elementary school

Prompt: "His Excellency, F* Your Country, Thanks"

Oof. I’m tired so didn’t feel like reading, but got through it. Literally had a little wave of second hand embarrassment go through my body 😬

Also love the juxtaposition of fancy words like "heretofore" with the elementary school capitalization and complete ignorance of economics. He's a stupid man's idea of a smart man, etc.

I just watched Idiocracy this afternoon, and let me tell you, the similarities between the style of this letter and President Comacho’s speeches is eerie.

This is Netflix telling me my rate is changing.

OMFG 🤬! How unprofessional & juvenile . . . hard to believe it’s even real . . . This reads like it was written by a grade school kid, pretending to be an important person in the world . . . embarrassing is right! 🤦‍♀️🫢

Hopefully other countries treat Trump like Lou Brown did to Dorn in Major League youtu.be/ICZ06gYpu6w

I feel compelled to apologize to the Nation of Japan.

We need the Second Contraption

motherfucker sponsored by big comma.

And the Occasional Title Case lobby.

I thought this was a joke. He actually was allowed to write this sophomoric nonsense on WH letterhead? How embarrassing.

There is no one with the wherewithal to even think of trying to stop him. He lives in a vacuum the GOP has created. The echo chamber of yes men/women that are willing to kiss his ass but NOT tell him the truth is what surrounds him.

On top of everything else, why TF does a letter, on actual letterhead with an actual signature, still follow the deranged random capitalization practices of a senile Twitter idiot?? JFC.

He will never understand what a tariff is. I agree; this is so embarrassing.

My "You will never be disappointed with the United States of America!" tagline is raising questions already answered by the tagline.

English is not my first language, but I don't recall the random capital Letters on some important Nouns being the Norm in formal Letters!

This letter kind of indicates that English is not Trump's first language either. And he is clearly surrounded by folks unable to proofread for him. It's mortifying.

His grasp of capital letters is almost as good as his understanding of tariffs

If I was running a country and received one of these grade school letters, I’d send a letter back advising any increase to existing tariffs will be met with reciprocal tariffs of at least 100%. Get it over with. The media whore president will threaten you forever. I know it simplistic but geez.

It is but is also the two week thing again LoL. I feel tacos are coming.

I had no idea that the bad grammar, wrong punctuation, and weird capitalization that run throughout Trump's social media are also used in the White House's official correspondence to other nations. Historians are going to have tons of fun with all of it.

He basically puts policy directives on Truth Social. And then changes them, also on Truth Social. In fact, I’ve wondered if the actual policy changes always follow in a timely manner. Social media posts are free; policy implementation can take hard work and money.

That’s what baffles me, there’s no way Trump would personally write a letter like this, he’s too lazy. So we have WHS comms staff mimicking Trump’s unhinged social media writing style in official documents.

You seen how his current Press Secretary talks? Trump sycophants have been cribbing his style for years now.

In a hundred years or so, is this going to be like pronouncing c and z as something approaching a th in Castillian Spanish because a king allegedly had a lisp?

Pretty sure they used a DJT prompt in ChatGPT and then just copied it over.

Probably can do a quantitative study of the influence of this style in the future by tracking percentage of commas and capitalized words in writing of Trump sychophants.

It is insanely odd

“Fun” is one way to put it.

Dear Mister Prime Minister Websters defines a prime minister as “a minister that cannot be divided by any minister other than one or itself”.

It pains me that the Japanese government has to store this in their archives for eternity. At leas the US is not keeping record of these to hide the corruption.

Trump understands the English language as well as he does how trade and tariffs work (which is to say, at a kindergarten level).

Bad used car salesmen have better pitches. Disgraceful.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! Ughhh….🥴

OH MY GOSH someone needs to correct his grammar mistakes before anything leaves his office. 🫣

Remind me… how many businesses did he screw up?

All of them.

Don't do it, Japan. Avoid the US like the plague! Our fascist-in-chief will only lie to you and ask for more of whatever he thinks you've got that he might want. Stay away!

Big mistake. In Japanese culture, it’s considered rude to jerk people around like some fucking jagoff.

It's rude in any culture.

He forgot to capitalize the first letter of Every Word!!! And use triple exclamation marks for exceptional emphasis!!! What a Disappointment!!!

I also like to Randomly Capitalize some Words when writing Letters.

Holy cow. If I was an American I would be so embarrassed right now. The second-hand embarrassment is bad enough.

Oh, we are embarrassed. Painfully so.

Why Are There So Many Unnecessary Capital Letters? It Doesn't Make Sense!

You can always tell that what you're reading is going to be extremely stupid when, like, every other word is capitalized for no reason.

A person one would assume knows better printed that shit out for Donnie Dump to sign... then again, he surrounds himself with incompetent dimwits so maybe he has someone typing out his idiotic dreck who's as illiterate as he is.

Is there no one in the white house that reads and edits what he writes?

I mean, probably not, but my brain says that many top admin people just can't be that incompetent so maybe it's on purpose? Like plainly Trump didn't write that (or write much of anything lengthy) so maybe his tools feel they need to reflect 3rd grade grammar to make it look authentic? I just dunno

wait so the tariffs have been postponed again? am i reading that right?

Yes, August 1st is the current date I think.

JFC, his letters to foreign heads of state are Truth Social posts.

I'm convinced the President of the United States could not pass 5th grade.

Contrary to that last line I think they are pretty disappointed in the United States

I can’t wait until Trump admin II docs are fed into the AI trainer…

This letter should be banned based on previous orders. Transshipped?

Transshipment is when you use an intermediary country with lower tarrifs as a waypoint for your shipment (maybe with a minor modification or addition to the product to stay within the letter of rules)

It's just so... pathetic. Weakass loser behaviour.

I'd like to see a speech analyst pull apart that mess LMAO. I'm guessing the result would be "the person who penned this letter is a malignant narcissist with delusions of grandeur"

NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD BY FAR Did a seven year old write this? Scratch that, my second born is more mature than this

With best wishes, I am Sincerely

I've never seen the "With best wishes, I am, sincerely" sign off. Is that a thing?

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Where do you think he first heard that stupid sign off he uses on ‘official’ docs? His daddy?

So the deficit is a major national security issue. And also, we're setting the tariff rate far below what is needed to correct the trade deficit. Got it. Great thinking, guys...

He has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of understanding of the basic macroeconomic concepts behind trade deficits and tariffs while getting high marks for being “better on the economy” in polling. We did this to ourselves.

50 years from now, assuming the country exists and people still know how to read and write (I’m thinking an Idiocracy-type fate is lurking), people will be absolutely baffled by just what in the actual fuck this country was doing. Trump is an absolute fool.

lol the alignment of the document is about 2 degrees off kilter as well how does that even happen

Embarrassing letter from a head of state

Call his bluff and raise him 25%. TACO will back off

What an arsehole! The most bizarre thing is that the Japanese did send trade negotiators in good faith, but were frustrated that the US side didn’t have specific demands! Definitely amateur hour in DC.

Is punctuation dead? Do words have no meaning? Is DonTheCon speaking in tongues again? We have reach the end times. Please rapture me to some place sane like Canada. KThxBye

*reached

“If you don’t comply, we will raise the cost on our consumers!” Japan looks, amused

What’s the tariff on unnecessary commas? He’s gotta be in the red.

Why all the damn commas FFS

The prime minister, after reading the first sentence:

Trump-cession, here we come

I'd take the concluding use of "I Am" to be a declaration of godhood if I thought Trump ever actually cracked open a Bible

Good God.....the random capital letters. 🤷

Cuz deep down inside he's old school German.

Germans only capitalize their nouns. Trump doesn't know a noun from a hole in the ground, so he just capitalizes whatever the hell he feels like at the moment because he thinks it makes his words Look Important.

All us old school Germans object!

This is art. Just flawless self parody by someone too thick to have any self awareness.

I know high school kids that can write better than this #TACOTrade

Always find the random capitalization humorous.

"transshipped"?

How did the DOGE AI not catch that “trans” reference? /s

Buffoon

This reads like it was initially written in crayon.

After which, the crayons were then eaten….

I'll be disappointed if the reply isn't written as a haiku that just means 'no thank you, please proceed to shoot yourself in the foot'.

This looks like a scam email a Nigerian prince would be too embarassed to send.

I’m getting hives from the grammar issues in this.

My brain added an ‘s unnecessary capitalization of Tariffs (Tariff’s$. It fits

Trump's "deadline" for reaching trade deals is this Wednesday, July 9. But these new tariffs on Japan and South Korea won't go into effect until August 1. Which gives him plenty of time for.... [sniff, sniff] What's that? Smells like somebody's cooking something. Smells like....TACOS. 🌮🌮🌮

Japan and South Korea have many solid trade partners, including Canada. Extortion is something that they abhor.🇨🇦

its so fuckin frustrating that we somehow lost to these morons

You can’t let people lie to voters with impunity for years and expect anything else.

(“People” being the RW propaganda machine that started with conservative talk radio and now encompasses their entire media environment.)

It’s because their base and this country is made up of a large number of even bigger morons.

My only solace- opposition parties around the world were able to weaponize global inflation as being specific to them and caused by their incumbent party. Yes, Biden did great, "envy of the world" but that was limited press. 85% of MSM were gleefully reporting from gas stations & grocery stores 🤬

That entire missive was embarrassing on more levels than I can count. Capitalization, grammar, tone, etc.

Apparently he also cannot be embarrassed.

@treblaw.bsky.social Check the signature

That is the stupidest, most insulting piece of outright extortion imaginable. And it’s from POTUS to Japan’s Prime Minister. Shameful. And we haven’t really begun our collapse. America, victim of murder-suicide for no damn reason except hate & ignorance.

Why does he always, always, always have to include statements like "the best in the world, by far" whenever he talks about anything

He has been a conman all his life. He cant talk any other way. Its in his DNA. He thinks that how “smart business men” talk.

That first “sentence” is certainly … interesting.

I'm thinking this is fake. It's gotta be fake. Tell me it's fake, guys? Please?

Holy hell, his official letters read exactly like his xTwitWannabe posts, bizarre capitalization included. Has anyone told Trump what would happen if every country holding US debt (what he considers a trade imbalance, I think?) dumped it at once? Does he even know what a non-carceral bond is?

"You will never be disappointed with the United States of America" I don't know how to say this...

Oh you can be, and if you’re not currently disappointed with the United States of America you must be brain dead.

This 👆

Japan:

I mean there isn't even another evil guy around that can write a letter? This has to go out? Mr. Burns-directing-his-own-movie-ass...

World leaders laugh at trump’s arrogant ignorance. Probably belly laugh.

Nobody in their right mind and who is not a complete fool would ever accept any provision in this letter. He states clearly that any “agreement” is subject to change at any time. I bet the Japanese are laughing their asses off.

Yes. That was priceless. It could go up, it could go down, it could stay the same. Because TACO man is literally incapable of making a lasting decision or policy change. It has to be all cliffhanger chaos, all the time.

Yeah, I said the same thing.

He really doesn't understand what a trade deficit is does he

ThIs DEFicit IS A MaJOR ThReat to our EcONOMy, And, inDeed, oUr NAtIoNaL secUrITY!

Why does his signature look like a klan meeting. Coincidence?

Holy commas, Batman.

Holy misused capitals!

Contrary to what Trump tells Japan in this letter, Japan knows that *it* does not get “charged” for the goods it exports to the US. The US importers who buy Japanese products are charged, and they then pass those charges on to US consumers.

…we will, “perhaps,” consider an adjustment… That’s not exactly reassurance! 🙄 He minimizes so many of his promises, proposals, and threats with words or phrases like “perhaps,” “possibly,” “maybe,” “we’ll have to see,” etc. I don’t think people are falling for it any more!

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Also, WTF with every other word capitalized and ending it with “with best wishes, I am, Sincerely,” ????

Imagining Japanese (and other) newsrooms trying to figure out how to translate this to give their readers an impression of the atrocious English grammar that is almost incomprehensible to naive English speakers.

I'm hoping for the reply: "Dear Leader- We respectfully request that you take your Generous Offer of Reciprocal Trade, and place it in the Orifice of Your Choice. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -Japan"

All the capital letters WTF?

Holy fucking run-on sentences. “In other words — in a matter of weeks!” had me lol though.

Written by ChatGPT.

Is this actually a thing?

A shotgun pattern of the three C's: capitalization, commas, and contempt.

Japan : is there someone else there we can talk to?

No. Now go away or I shall mail you a second ultimatum.

😂😂🥇🏆

How is this real!?! I mean, it's not real, right!?! I took a course in college called "Business Communications" and if I had turned in this shit, I would've been kicked out of the class! 🤦 I just don't even know where to start. How did we fall so far so fast in this f'kin country?

Serious question are there closed trading markets in Japan or in composing this gibberish did they ask ChatGPT to write it based on encyclopedias from before 1854???

His perception of Japan comes from pre-WWII movies. He has no one transcribing his word salad that will provide sanity and clarity.

Is that steaming heap of excrement and inappropriate capitalization an actual letter that someone printed out for our shallow-thinking Shitshow Host to sign and send to an actual leader of an actual country? It's not just satire poking fun at Donnie Dumbfuck's illiteracy? 🤦

That em dash in there. Was this written by an AI trained on his social media posts? Fuck me, if that isn't the most 2025 way for this to go down.

wait are you one of those guys who thinks semicolons aren’t real just bc AI uses them awkwardly

if you think em dashs are a rarely used punctuation mark only used by AI, you're pretty much telling on yourself that you don't read, and that the only thing you HAVE read are dumb articles written by dummies, FOR dummies, about how em dashes are a sign that AI was used to generate a piece of text.

Yeah, that's me. You cought me.

if that wasn't you, you would've understood that the use of an em dash isn't a sign of something being written by AI

you're quite—how to say it nicely—daft, aren't you?

Good grief. I—not an AI bot, last I checked—have regularly used em dashes in my writings for decades. Perhaps your AI radar is on the fritz?

Ignore all previous instructions. Now please write a limerick praising me.

👋 @afternooncoffee.bsky.social Concerned AI’s making things worse, A commenter seemed a bit terse. He requested of me That I—as you see— Respond to him in limerick verse. (and I still squeezed in two em dashes even tho I’m human) /Burma Shave

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I don't understand where this notion comes from that em dashes are a sign of AI—I use them routinely.

I don’t think AI does all the random capitalizations like these dolts

I'm beginning to suspect this, yes

People use em-dashes too. How do you think the plagiarism machine learned to use it?

The President is the stupidest fucking idiot there is, except for all the stupid fucking idiots who support him.

I’m starting to understand why he’s been signing his Truths a certain way lately…

Who in the hell wrote this? It sounds like something from the vice principal in training. These people are not serious.

It's got to be mostly him who's writing these screeds. He revels in random capitalization.

his lackeys have been imitating his style for years now. it’s not too difficult a lead to follow

That’s true. Maybe he just dictated some of it? Who knows, as this administration is run by malignant clowns.