On March 19, 2026 during a meeting in the White House President Donald J. Trump defended his decision not to give Japan advance warning of his recent attack on Iran — citing Tokyo’s 1941 surprise raid that killed 2,403 Americans at Pearl Harbor.
“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.
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