Japanese Reporter Asks Trump Why US Didn’t Warn Allies About Iran War: “Why Didn’t You Tell Us About Pearl Harbor?”
President Trump referred to Pearl Harbor during a meeting with the new Prime Minister of Japan on Thursday, when a Japanese reporter asked why the U.S. didn’t tell allies in advance that they planned to launch an attack on Iran.
REPORTER: Japan and the U.S. are very good friends, but one question: Why didn’t you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran? So we are very confused about it, we Japanese citizens. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: One thing-you don’t want to signal too much. When we went 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? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, right? OK? He’s asking me… You believe in surprise? I think much more so than us. We had to surprise them, and we did. And because of that surprise, we knocked out-in 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?
