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President Trump’s letter to Japan was a confusing, grammatical nightmare… and his fans are standing up for him? 15 sadly ignorant defences

Saul Hutson. Updated July 8th, 2025

President Trump sent a bunch of tariff letters around the world yesterday and, well, let’s just say it’s a relief they weren’t pieced together with individual letters cut out of magazines and newspapers glued to a piece of scrap paper.

That brings us to the writing itself. Blustery. Confusing. Loud, somehow. It wasn’t the example of class and diction we’d hope to represent the United State of America. But just how bad was it? Twitter user @krassenstein ran a quick copy edit on the letter to Japan and it wasn’t pretty. 20 grammatical errors in 528 words.

And just in case that’s tricky to read …

So embarrassing. Almost as embarrassing as the hordes of Twitter users who quickly came to Trump’s defence. The leader of the free world doesn’t know how to speak, write, or communicate in his own language and his followers want you to stop nitpicking. There’s not a face nor a palm big enough to express the exasperation. Here are the most ignorant defenses.

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