Oval Office crowd left briefly silent after Trump makes light of 83-year-old attack

Oval Office crowd left briefly silent after Trump makes light of 83-year-old attack

Donald Trump made a joke about Pearl Harbor in front of the less-than-impressed Japanese Prime Minister. On Thursday (19 March), Sanae Takaichi sat down with the president in the…

“Who knows better about surprise than Japan?" he asked.

US president was meeting with Japanese PM when he said: ‘Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’

During the meeting, Trump praised Japan for "stepping up" to assist in efforts to secure the Strait of Hormuz, "unlike NATO."

Oval Office crowd left briefly silent after Trump makes light of 83-year-old attack

President Trump compared US strikes on Iran to the deadly 1941 Japanese attack and declaration of war as part of World War Two.

President Donald Trump stirred historical tensions Thursday, drawing a direct parallel between U.S. strikes on Iran and Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl...