{"id":17591,"date":"2026-03-20T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-compares-iran-strikes-to-pearl-harbor-in-front-of-japanese-pm\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:31:13","slug":"trump-compares-iran-strikes-to-pearl-harbor-in-front-of-japanese-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-compares-iran-strikes-to-pearl-harbor-in-front-of-japanese-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump compares Iran strikes to Pearl Harbor in front of Japanese PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><video src=\"https:\/\/video.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-03-20\/Trump-compares-Iran-strikes-to-Pearl-Harbor-in-front-of-Japanese-PM-1LERqxhfAkw\/video\/wu_1jk47hkmn1mdj1hlq9qg1dp510sla\/wu_1jk47hkmn1mdj1hlq9qg1dp510sla.m3u8\" poster=\"https:\/\/video.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-03-20\/Trump-compares-Iran-strikes-to-Pearl-Harbor-in-front-of-Japanese-PM-1LERqxhfAkw\/video\/wu_1jk47hkmn1mdj1hlq9qg1dp510sla\/wu_1jk47hkmn1mdj1hlq9qg1dp510sla.jpg\"><\/video>\n<p>US President Donald Trump compared his administration&rsquo;s surprise military actions against Iran to Japan&rsquo;s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor during a meeting with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The remark came amid a tense exchange in which Trump defended his decision not to notify US allies in advance of the operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t inform our allies because I wanted it to be a surprise,&rdquo; Trump said, adding, &ldquo;Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay, why didn&rsquo;t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, resulting in nearly 3,600 American casualties. Then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the day &ldquo;a day of infamy,&rdquo; and the attack prompted the United States to formally enter World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Trump compares Iran strikes to Pearl Harbor in front of Japanese PM<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump compared his administration&rsquo;s surprise military actions against Iran to Japan&rsquo;s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor during a meeting with visiting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday. The remark came amid a tense exchange in which Trump defended his decision not to notify US allies in advance of the operations against&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-compares-iran-strikes-to-pearl-harbor-in-front-of-japanese-pm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump compares Iran strikes to Pearl Harbor in front of Japanese PM&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}