This is an excellent point. But I have to point out that the highly self-centered, introspective and self-deprecating American education system does not teach the younger generations much about the Japanese during WWII. It wasn’t until I was much older and came to know some older Chinese that I started to hear the truth of the Japanese invasion of China; as horrific as the Germans in Europe.
Eventually they’ll teach in school that the Japanese were only trying to kick the Western Colonialists out of Asia.
Yes Manchuria was horrible but this is the United States and what Trump said was appropriate.