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Japanese Reporter: "Why didn’t you tell Japan about your surprise attack against Iran?" Trump: "Who knows better about surprises than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
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| March 19, 2026
| MJTruthUltra @MJTruthUltra
Posted on 03/19/2026 12:07:19 PM PDT by ransomnote
ransomnote: I excerpted the video. The first half is the the Japanese PM's reaction to Trump asking why Japan didn't tell the US about Pearl Harbor in advance (she straightens in her chair). The second half was her reaction to his statement, 'You believe in suprise, I think, much more than us.' (She raises her brows and blinks)
MJTruthUltra
@MJTruthUltra
OMG. President Trump does not GAF 
Japanese Reporter: Why didn’t you tell Japan about your surprise attack against Iran?
Trump:
Who knows better about surprises than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"
Look at her face.. 
SAVAGE
President Trump on Jerome Powell:
He’s under investigation for what they’re spending on the new building. Something is going on there. He has Trump Derangement Syndrome, it’s not a curable disease (ransomnote: 3 minute video at link)
March 19, 2026
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; dumbresponse; iran; japan; pearlharbor; qtardnonsense; waronterror
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Trump says Powell is stubborn, incompetent, and that's a bad thing. He says Powell's building is simpler but costs far more than Trump's construction project.
To: ransomnote
It was supposed to be a question for his dignitary guest, but the insolent fellow directed his snarky inquiry to the President of the United States — and got the slap-down he deserved.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:08:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:08:52 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Import the third world. Become the second world.)
To: ransomnote
Japan has been an excellent ally for 75 years.
I see no reason to shame and antagonize them.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:09:55 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:12:08 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Mariner
It’s part of a negotiating tactic to get their help opening the Strait of Hormuz. 100% guaranteed to work.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:13:56 PM PDT
by
Fury
To: Mariner
“ I see no reason to shame and antagonize them.”
Did you watch the conversation?
And by watch, I mean not just attempting to shame and antagonize me with ‘of course I watched it what’s wrong with you?”
I mean did you watch the whole conversation?
Because, maga as reported by enter today is 100% behind Trump. You can take that as 100% sick of knee jerk ‘Trump is wrong’ without even looking at the situation
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:15:04 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: ransomnote
That. Is. Hysterical.
My mostly apolitical wife was howling.
We’ll not see his like again.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:17:15 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Annnd....I voted for this too!)
To: Mariner
Japan has been an excellent ally for 75 years. I see no reason to shame and antagonize them.
The Europeans deserve this treatment. Not the Japanese.
To: ransomnote
We need this man…He Fights!
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:18:53 PM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: stanne
I didn’t watch it, I read it.
Watching is for emoters.
If you think POTUS is 100% above criticism, your mind is weak. And emotional.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:19:13 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
“I didn’t watch it, I read it.
Watching is for emoters.“
Devil is in the details
As you said no reason to shame and antagonize. Unless you’re tds needs to do so to others
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:21:37 PM PDT
by
stanne
To: Mariner
I don’t see that as shaming any one.
The point is an obvious one about operational security and one that any listener fully understood.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:22:06 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
To: Mariner
If you watch the clip, Trump gave a respectful answer about the need for surprise in the attack. It was not to shame anybody but just to state what everybody knows about how you have to do war.
To: Mariner
Not sure where you saw a transcript, but you have to hear Trump’s gentle, non-belligerent voice to understand that it was not the snarky or bellocose Trump that the media tries to make him out to be (and sometimes he is).
To: Mariner
“Japan has been an excellent ally for 75 years.
I see no reason to shame and antagonize them.”
The reporter tried to shame America and got his comeuppance, “shaming Japan” has nothing to do with it.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:24:57 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Annnd....I voted for this too!)
To: ransomnote
A reminder that on that same day, Japan also attacked:
The Phillipines
Hong Kong
Malaya
Guam
Wake Island
Midway Island
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:25:46 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
("I am Charlie Kirk!")
It’s a wonder he couldn’t pull together a western coalition with this level of tact.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:32:19 PM PDT
by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: SaxxonWoods; Mariner
Correct, and Trump made the reporter pay the price. Trump made that reporter look so stupid he might commit ritual seppuku on the plane ride back.
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:32:38 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/19/2026 12:33:22 PM PDT
by
awelliott
(What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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