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Trump dumps fish food on koi carp, sparks outrage

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Agence France-Presse

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="ro">President Trump feeds koi carp alongside Japan&#x27;s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe at Tokyo&#x27;s Akasaka Palace pond. <a href="https://t.co/aKKP650JN6">pic.twitter.com/aKKP650JN6</a></p>— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/927477962785554432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>TOKYO, Japan - US President Donald Trump sparked a feeding frenzy on social media Monday when he was photographed dumping a box of fish food into a pond of koi carp during his trip to Japan.</p><p>Trump and his Japanese host Shinzo Abe began by delicately spooning out the food into the pond to the waiting koi, which had been rounded up by a clapping Japanese aide.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/trending/11/06/110617-trump-asia-japan.jpg"/><figcaption>U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan&#x27;s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe feed carp before their working lunch at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan. <em>Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The US leader apparently lost patience with this method and upended his entire wooden box into the pond.</p><p>The incident caused outrage among fish lovers on Twitter, with many pointing out that fish cannot absorb a large amount of food at a time.</p><p>US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, standing just behind Trump, appeared to break out in laughter at his boss&#x27;s no-nonsense approach to koi feeding.</p><p>But some uncharitable Twitter users were less forgiving, with several writing: &quot;Trump can&#x27;t even feed fish right.&quot;</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/trending/03/14/17/watch-dirty-canal-transformed-into-koi-pond">WATCH: Dirty canal transformed into koi pond</a></li></ul>

<p>TOKYO, Japan - US President Donald Trump sparked a feeding frenzy on social media Monday when he was photographed dumping a box of fish food into a pond of koi carp during his trip to Japan.</p>

TOKYO, Japan - US President Donald Trump sparked a feeding frenzy on social media Monday when he was photographed dumping a box of fish food into a pond of koi carp during his trip to Japan.