When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi asked Trump why he didn’t give the International community a heads-up that he was going to war with Iran, he made an attempt at a joke, using Pearl Harbor as the punch line.
“We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise,” Trump told a Japanese journalist Thursday as the country’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sat next to him in the Oval Office.
“Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Trump said, adding: “You believe in surprise, I think, much more so than us.
Takaichi kept a mostly straight face as Trump referenced her nation’s World War II attack, though gasps could be heard in the Oval Office.