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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?"
X.com ^ | 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)

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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
 

 
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2h
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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To: Mariner
"I didn’t watch it, I read it. Watching is for emoters."

LOL, do you know what a petulant child you sound like? Watch the video, it was a joke and taken as such by the room.


21 posted on 03/19/2026 12:35:26 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Fury; Mariner

Y’all have no sense of humor. I LOL’d and I bet everyone there chuckled except the chucklehead reporter that blurted what he intended to be an embarrassing question.


22 posted on 03/19/2026 12:40:35 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: dfwgator

Thank you for adding the rest of the unsuspecting countries that were attacked by Japan.
Yes, Japan has been a good ally for 81 years, but that was after we kicked the total dogshit out of them and they begged for surrender.
And, I still won’t forget how Japan treated the POW’s and their conquered nation’s citizens. Japan was just as bad if not worse than Germany.


23 posted on 03/19/2026 12:41:33 PM PDT by caver ( )
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To: Fury

Prediction bookmark


24 posted on 03/19/2026 12:42:07 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: Mariner

>> If you think POTUS is 100% above criticism, your mind is weak. And emotional.

It’s possible to agree that POTUS is not above criticism,

*WHILE AT THE SAME TIME OBSERVING THAT*

99.999% of the criticism leveled at him on FR and elsewhere is weak-minded, and emotional. Including yours, here.


25 posted on 03/19/2026 12:44:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: ransomnote

Pressure is building on old Trump and he keeps making these bonehead comments will only get worse..


26 posted on 03/19/2026 12:45:22 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: ransomnote

Well he’s right, where is the lie? It’s a historical fact! Why is that WE always have to inform everyone else in advance for EVERYTHING we do but the rest of the world doesn’t have to tell us jack


27 posted on 03/19/2026 12:45:57 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mariner

They started it.


28 posted on 03/19/2026 12:48:05 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I would have been an awesome merchant marine. I can sell convenient store items very well.)
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To: dpetty121263

You’re sick


29 posted on 03/19/2026 12:48:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

dear god, the lol factor from this heading is chuckle worthy.


30 posted on 03/19/2026 12:49:58 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Nervous Tick

LOL! I saw the video. It looked like a “few” people were not chuckling.

But no matter. I recognize it as a President Trump negotiation tactic to gain the support of allies.


31 posted on 03/19/2026 12:54:29 PM PDT by Fury
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To: central_va

Facts are painful...


32 posted on 03/19/2026 12:56:04 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Great point. That is how I ended my essay about choosing Trump. Except for Grant the other Union generals were not doing much of anything.


33 posted on 03/19/2026 1:00:20 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Mariner

“Japan has been an excellent ally for 75 years.
I see no reason to shame and antagonize them.”

Yeah it was a strange comment by Trump.

“Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”
The obvious answer is
“... Because neither one of us was born yet?”


34 posted on 03/19/2026 1:03:51 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: MinorityRepublican

It was a snarky, terrible question from a reporter for Japan...and what Trump said was what most folks were thinking. Just remember how the press treats him....they deserve no special disposition, and what’s Japan going to do with China right next door?


35 posted on 03/19/2026 1:05:35 PM PDT by BK_in Central Texas
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To: dpetty121263

They really got him this time!!!!


36 posted on 03/19/2026 1:06:30 PM PDT by BK_in Central Texas
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To: caver
“Japan was just as bad if not worse than Germany.”

This is something many people don’t know, or choose to forget/overlook.

37 posted on 03/19/2026 1:07:00 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: ransomnote

Well it was a Surprise ,D’oh ,LOL


38 posted on 03/19/2026 1:07:27 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: SaxxonWoods; Mariner

“ The reporter tried to shame America and got his comeuppance, “shaming Japan” has nothing to do with it.”

Ya. He commented without watching it.


39 posted on 03/19/2026 1:09:13 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Wayne07
do you know what a petulant child you sound like?

That's his style. Ignore it.

40 posted on 03/19/2026 1:10:06 PM PDT by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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