Trump joked about Pearl Harbor in front of the Japanese Prime Minister

Sitting beside Japan’s Prime Minister in the Oval Office, the President of the United States decided to turn one of America’s greatest tragedies into a punchline. When a Japanese reporter asked why the U.S. didn’t warn allies before striking Iran, Trump grinned and said, “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” More than 2,400 Americans died that day. The USS Arizona is still a burial ground. And every president before this one understood that some things are not jokes.

But the Pearl Harbor comment wasn’t the most dangerous thing he said. On Truth Social, Trump claimed the U.S. “knew nothing” about Israel’s strike on Iran’s South Pars gas field. He later admitted he spoke with Netanyahu about it and described their relationship as “coordinated.” He also let slip that someone warned him before the war that the economy would suffer. His response: “I thought it would be worse.” He weighed the cost against the pain of ordinary Americans and decided it was acceptable. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Takaichi came to that room because U.S. troops are being pulled from Japan and redeployed to the Middle East just as China escalates military exercises around Taiwan. She flattered him, praised him, and left with her alliance intact.

And while the cameras were rolling in the Oval Office, the FCC approved a $6.2 billion deal creating the largest local television operator in the country, waiving a decades-old rule that prevented any single company from owning stations reaching more than 39% of American households. The combined company will now reach up to 80%. Eight state attorneys general sued to block it. The company’s CEO thanked Trump and the FCC chairman by name. Every authoritarian regime in modern history has consolidated media before consolidating power.

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