トランプのニュースとアメリカの日常生活
Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
All right, I'm out.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Well, thank you for the...
Topics. Yeah.
Trump's news. Yes.
Um...
Yeah, okay.
Your dad is in the United States, right?
Yeah. Does he...
vote?
Like... I don't know.
He has a green card, so I don't...
People with green cards, they...
Can they vote?
Is he okay?
Oh, yeah, he's fine.
He's doing well, like, peacefully?
Oh, yeah.
I guess only the gas prices, I guess.
Sorry?
Gas prices. Oh, okay.
I see.
But it's not anything big, I guess.
Okay.
I don't know. Yeah, I think he's okay.
Nothing big is happening.
Okay, good, good, good.
When is...
When is he going to come to Japan?
Have you decided?
I think the next visit is, I think,
two months from now.
He's going to come back to Japan for a meeting.
Okay, okay.
Nice. He doesn't...
decide when he...
He's going to, like, retire?
Completely, like, move to Japan.
I have not heard anything about that from him.
So, I don't know when.
So, he's going to still...
He's going to be working continuously
at least for, I don't know, a few years?
I don't know. I guess.
I don't know.
He's...
Yeah.
He did say he wanted to
go to Japan, though.
I mean, leave Japan?
Yeah, leave Japan, like, ultimately.
Not in Hawaii anymore?
Yeah, yeah.
Because he gave up on Hawaii.
He said the book goes, like, way too high.
It's not worth it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I see.
ニュースを聞いたときの距離感と感情
Now, after hearing all those crazy news,
you know,
about Trump,
it sounds, like, very chaotic.
Oh, yeah.
But I think that everyday lives
of the Americans, it's not like that.
It doesn't affect it.
It's not that different.
The only thing, I guess, I can think of is, like,
the gas prices.
But other than that,
it's not that, like...
Okay.
Good, good, good.
As a country, it's not...
It's...
Every day, the everyday lives
are just as usual, I guess.
Yeah.
Good, good, good.
Good.
How do you...
By the way, how do you get those informationfrom...
Oh, social media.
Social media?
Yeah, like news channels.
Okay, I see.
It's good.
I mean, to me, it's good that you share
the information
because it's...
Yeah, it's...
But to me, it's, like...
It's a bit far.
The United States is a bit far.
It's like a different country.
I'm living in Japan,
where Japan and the United States
is very, like, I'd say, very friendly.
We're, you know,
grabbing hands with each other.
But it's two different countries, right?
Yeah.
So to me, it's, like, a bit...
Not that close.
But to you, is it, like...
Do you feel scared or, like,
do you worry about the United States?
Or, like,
what's the distance you're feeling
about those news?
Or, like, when I hear these, like,
crazy stories about Trump?
Is it funny to you?
Or are you worrying, like...
Oh, it's like...
It's like, oh, my God, it's ridiculous.
This is kind of the reaction that I get.
I see.
When you say something crazy,
you never know how much that's true.
関税の影響と社会とのつながり
You never know how much that's gonna actually be,
you know, put into action.
And...
Yeah.
I see, I see.
Yeah, because I'm living in Japan.
If the Prime Minister of Japan starts saying likethat,
I would seriously
be worrying about
the future, the daily life and everything.
I can't laugh at anymore, you know?
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's nothing that...
You know,
nothing that directly
impacts what
we're doing every day, right?
So...
Yeah.
Well, okay, for example,
like, when he started
doing tariffs on everybody,
that did, I guess, affect
a lot of people.
And there was a lot of retaliation.
I don't know what's going on right now
with the tariffs, but...
Yeah, that happened. And I'm like...
When I looked at that news, I'm like,
God,
good thing I wasn't in the trading business.
That was kind of my first instinct, right?
Mm-hmm.
I mean, that's a global thing, right, actually?
Right, so...
I'm only kind of emotional to
anything that's directly affecting
me personally, so...
When I look at those news, I'm like,
ooh, wow.
Good thing I'm not in the trading business
is what I thought.
I see, I see.
Yeah. I'm starting
to doubt myself, like, if I should
laugh at those things
because it's not...
It's not direct affection
to me, at least, but
it's still, we're all connected
and, you know...
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It might even be a demand for you, right?
Yeah, to the people.
Right.
It's important
to be
ニュースを多角的に見る
connected
with those information,
not completely separated.
Ah, that's true.
So I'm enjoying
this corner
every week corner,
but at the same time, more
seriously, it's like
getting information to...
Well, look, I'm only picking up the crazy
earwax. Yeah, I know.
I know, I know. Yeah.
Many of the things that's happening
in the government, they're run by
good people. Yeah.
Well, I hope so.
Hope so, right? Hopefully, right?
Yeah. Right.
Yeah. Right.
But there's a lot
of ways to look at it. A lot of ways to look atit.
Yeah. I can't just say,
oh, it's fine.
Yeah.
Alright. Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you. Bye-bye.