U.S. President Donald Trump became the main attraction on an otherwise anticlimactic final day at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday, a day after No. 8 maegashira Asanoyama clinched his first championship.
The president, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. first lady Melania Trump and Japanese first lady Akie Abe, arrived prior to Asanoyama's bout against komusubi Mitakeumi. The pair of wrestlers were forced to stand in the ring for several minutes while the entourage entered the arena and took their seats.
The two traded slaps and shoves with Mitakeumi (9-6) getting the better of that exchange, forcing the new champion back to the straw bales and out for his third loss of the 15-day meet at Ryogoku Kokugikan.