Trump Ribs Japanese PM on Pearl Harbor in Oval Office Talk on Iran

[ruet]

Source: The Hill

President Trump ribbed the nation of Japan over its World War II bombing of Pearl Harbor in a Thursday Oval Office meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Taking questions from reporters, Trump said he would call on a “beautiful person from Japan.”

Asked why he didn’t tell allies like Japan about the conflict in Iran ahead of time, Trump invoked the Dec. 7, 1941 bombing in Hawaii.

“You don’t want to signal too much… We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise,” he responded.

“Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Trump added jokingly to Takaichi.



Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5791865-trump-japan-takaichi-pearl-harbor-iran-war/

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OMG this f'ing guy.

[niyad]

1. Hey, you fuckers at the Swill. .the orange menace does NOT "joke".

[underpants]

2. 🤦‍♂️

[Ocelot II]

3. "Ribbed"? Seriously? Who writes this crap?

That wasn’t ribbing, it was insulting, and no doubt it was intentional.

[Javaman]

4. and the PM should have shot back, just like you didn't tell us about the atomic bomb. nt

[Prairie Gates]

5. "ribs"

Give me a break.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Ribs? Did somebody say Trump Steaks?

Would you like a side of E. Coli with that?

[Hugin]

9. It was far more than a rib...

It was the worst of crass international insults. Any other president would have been forced to resign by now.

We're back to the boys will be boys reporting.

[Qutzupalotl]

7. "...Because I wasn't born yet, you freaking moron?"

[twodogsbarking]

8. Hiroshima.

[LudwigPastorius]

10. "Yeah, that Pacific War...what a fucking laugh it was!"

"Three million dead...HAR Har har har!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Tone deaf jackass

Japan also suffered a devastating loss. Is he predicting the same for us?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. trump is an asshole and was not funny

Link to tweet

[LudwigPastorius]

13. His only thrill in life is in humiliating and bullying other people.

(...or entire countries, in this case.)

[mountain grammy]

14. I wish she, or anyone else sitting there

would just look at him and say “you stink!”

[Turbineguy]

15. Everybody knows what to expect of trump.

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She was probably warned that he would make some crude sexual proposal.

[Bayard]

16. President National Embarrassment