President Trump on Thursday gave a hilarious response to a Japanese reporter asking why the US conducted a surprise attack on Iran last month.
While meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Trump reminded the Japanese of the 1941 surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii.
“Let me pick a beautiful-looking person from Japan. A question for the Prime Minister,” Trump said to the reporter while pointing.
The reporter questioned, “Me?”
Trump responded, “Oh, he doesn’t think he’s beautiful. He sounded shocked,” causing the room to burst into laughter.
Then Trump hit him with a banger that we will likely be seeing replayed for years to come.
When asked why US allies, including Japan, were not informed of the attacks on Iran beforehand, Trump said, “Well, one thing, you don’t want to signal too much, you know? When we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.”
He then added, “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay, right?”
Regardless of what you think of the war, this is hilarious. Classic Trump!
WATCH:
Reporter: Japan and US are very good friends, but one question, why didn’t you tell US allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran? So We are very confused about, we Japanese citizens—
Trump: Well, one thing, you don’t want to signal too much, you know? When we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay, right?
He’s asking me. No, you believe in surprise, I think, much more so than us, and we had a surprise, and we did. And because of that surprise, we knocked out— the first two days, we probably knocked out 50% of what we, and much more, than we anticipated doing. So if I go and tell everybody about it, there’s no longer a surprise, right?
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