When Donald Trump met in the Oval Office on Thursday with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, he was asked why he didn’t tell U.S. allies about plans to strike Iran.
“You don’t want to signal too much,” Trump said. “We went in very hard, and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.”
Trump then raised his voice. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” Some in the room laughed. “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?” Then there was some cautious laughter, before the room went quiet.
Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 led to the U.S. getting into World War II. Japan was not a U.S. ally at the time.
“You believe in surprise much more so than us,” Trump told the reporter, who was from a Japanese media outlet. “And we had to surprise
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