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President Donald Trump connected Thursday (March 19, 2026) drew a parallel betwixt U.S. strikes connected Iran and Japan’s attack connected Pearl Harbor decades ago, arsenic helium defended the warfare against Tehran astatine a gathering with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi successful Washington.
“We wanted surprise. Who knows amended astir astonishment than Japan? Why didn’t you archer maine about Pearl Harbor?” Mr. Trump said erstwhile a writer asked wherefore helium had not told allies astir his war plans.
“You judge successful surprise, I deliberation overmuch much truthful than us.”
Ms. Takaichi’s eyes widened and she shifted successful her seat arsenic Mr. Trump, seated beside her successful the Oval Office, evoked the moment that drew the U.S. into World War Two.
The Japanese onslaught connected the U.S. naval basal successful Pearl Harbor, Hawaii connected Dec. 7, 1941, killed 2,390 Americans, and the U.S. declared warfare connected Japan the adjacent day.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it “a day which volition unrecorded in infamy.”
The U.S. defeated Japan successful August 1945, days after U.S. atomic weaponry attacks connected Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
