In selling Maryland, Wes Moore offers Japan, Korea a Trump alternative

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SEOUL — For the better part of an hour, the governor’s delegation and Japanese business leaders had pitched Maryland to a room full of investors, entrepreneurs and executives in a Tokyo highrise without the president coming up.


Seen by some as a 2028 presidential contender, Moore’s approach toward Trump has swung from saying “I’m not the leader of the resistance” on CNN in January to calling the president “reckless” and warning Trump’s administration threatens “our rights, freedoms and futures” in a series of social media posts on Tuesday.

At a time when conservatives are vilifying diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, Moore’s team pointed to Maryland‘s status as the most diverse state on the East Coast as a selling point. When elite institutions are under siege by the Trump administration, Moore celebrated their value as a resource for business and innovation.