Trump Ribs Japanese PM on Pearl Harbor in Oval Office Talk on Iran

[ruet]

Source: The Hill

President Trump ribbed the nation of Japan over its World War II bombing of Pearl Harbor in a Thursday Oval Office meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Taking questions from reporters, Trump said he would call on a “beautiful person from Japan.”

Asked why he didn’t tell allies like Japan about the conflict in Iran ahead of time, Trump invoked the Dec. 7, 1941 bombing in Hawaii.

“You don’t want to signal too much… We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise,” he responded.

“Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Trump added jokingly to Takaichi.



Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5791865-trump-japan-takaichi-pearl-harbor-iran-war/

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OMG this f'ing guy.

[niyad]

1. Hey, you fuckers at the Swill. .the orange menace does NOT "joke".

[underpants]

2. 🤦‍♂️

[Ocelot II]

3. "Ribbed"? Seriously? Who writes this crap?

That wasn’t ribbing, it was insulting, and no doubt it was intentional.

[Javaman]

4. and the PM should have shot back, just like you didn't tell us about the atomic bomb. nt

[Prairie Gates]

5. "ribs"

Give me a break.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Ribs? Did somebody say Trump Steaks?

Would you like a side of E. Coli with that?

[Hugin]

9. It was far more than a rib...

It was the worst of crass international insults. Any other president would have been forced to resign by now.

We're back to the boys will be boys reporting.

[Jack Valentino]

20. And morons will be morons----

The reporter should have followed up asking Trump what was the date of that attack ???


I bet he doesn't even know that much....

[Skittles]

23. can you imagine behaving like that in any regular job

you'd be terminated so quickly

[Qutzupalotl]

7. "...Because I wasn't born yet, you freaking moron?"

[twodogsbarking]

8. Hiroshima.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. "Yeah, that Pacific War...what a fucking laugh it was!"

"Three million dead...HAR Har har har!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Tone deaf jackass

Japan also suffered a devastating loss. Is he predicting the same for us?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. trump is an asshole and was not funny

Link to tweet

[LudwigPastorius]

13. His only thrill in life is in humiliating and bullying other people.

(...or entire countries, in this case.)

[Talitha]

17. That would have been my cue to get up and walk out.

It was a mistake to keep smiling.
His remark should have been met with a cold stare.

[Deuxcents]

28. And there was laughter from the audience..WTH?

[mountain grammy]

14. I wish she, or anyone else sitting there

would just look at him and say “you stink!”

[Turbineguy]

15. Everybody knows what to expect of trump.

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She was probably warned that he would make some crude sexual proposal.

[thought crime]

21. It was reported that she expected it to be very difficult.

I hope she didn't bend to pressure.

[Bayard]

16. President National Embarrassment

[Polybius]

18. Ribs is a super-90s term

Whoever wrote that headline most certainly was a teen in the 90s.

[orangecrush]

26. It wasn't "ribbing"

It was a narcissist demeaning an entire country

[Polybius]

30. Oh, I know

I was just talking about the term.

[orangecrush]

31. Understood

He is a pig.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. 'Profound idiot': Nicolle Wallace struggles to process Trump's shock joke to Japanese PM

trump does not have a sense of humor and is a major league sexist asshole

'Profound idiot': Nicolle Wallace struggles to process Trump's shock joke to Japanese PM www.rawstory.com/nicolle-wall...
Oh man! No joking about Nagasaki and Hiroshima being the double tap that ended WW2?
He's obtuse. And acutely moronic.

— Ray Bannatyne (@mrfoo123.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T22:56:15.128Z

https://www.rawstory.com/nicolle-wallace-trump-japan/

MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace had a frank reaction on Thursday after President Donald Trump made a jaw-dropping comment that shocked people inside the Oval Office during a White House meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Wallace was visibly stunned after discussing Trump's attempted joke that clearly left the room uncomfortable when a reporter asked why Trump hadn't warned his allies that the U.S.-Israeli military strikes were coming.

"One thing, you don't want to signal too much when we go in," Trump said. "We went in very hard and we didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

Wallace watched the video playback and commented on Trump, asking her panel to share their thoughts.

"I struggle every minute of every day with platforming him, one, I should do it all day because it shows what a profound idiot he is," Wallace said. "But but two, we were on other sides. This is a question about why didn't you read in your allies? And he says, we didn't know what our adversary was going to do. I mean, David Frum, what do you even, how's your brain doing?"

[MorbidButterflyTat]

22. "....ribbed..."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. For this thread

[orangecrush]

25. That wasn't "ribbing"

It was disgusting disrespect to a culture that venerates respect.

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. Stupid, ignorant man embarrasses himself and America when discussing Pearl Harbor.

[Vinca]

29. Guess we should be grateful he didn't crack wise about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[JI7]

32. Would he ever say something similar about Germany ?

or anything else which points to what Germany did back then ?