President Donald Trump on Saturday awarded a Japanese sumo wrestling champion with the “President’s Cup,” a huge trophy that stands at four and a half feet tall and weighs over 60 pounds.
Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the sumo match in Tokyo’s Ryōgoku Kokugikan Stadium with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife.
With the help of a sumo official, Trump handed the cup over to winning wrestler Asanoyama in the wrestling ring at the end of the tournament.
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The biggest!
Sad thing is, Sumo is a legitimate sport with a long history of strict discipline and a very well-developed code of honor.
Not exactly Trumplike… the similarities end at girth.
Trump equates them to his WTF fake wrestlers.
Some very BIG grey-haired, noble old fellows likely don’t like this image of their sport at all.
Trump’s trash, and Sumo doesn’t need him.
So where did this completely ostentatious trophy come from? Who paid for it?
Created for him specially. Abe sucks up to Trump like GOPers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-presents-gilded-presidents-cup-to-sumo-champion-in-a-highlight-of-his-japan-trip/2019/05/26/fca43394-7e37-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.928b3d9b57ab
From the article: Tiktin said he read in the Japan Times that the Japanese “kind of made up this prize to make him feel good,”
Trump watching ringside with his arms crossed. Gives the trophy to the wrestler and demands to be the center of attention.