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President Donald Trump invoked Pearl Harbor while defending the U.S. strike on Iran and his decision not to alert allies in advance, saying during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: “Who knows surprise better than Japan?”

The president was pressed in the Oval Office why he did not coordinate or inform allies, such as Japan, that he was planning on striking Iran.

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00:00Of course, now Japan and the U.S. are very good friends, but one question, why didn't you tell U
00:09.S. allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?
00:15So we are very confused about Japanese citizens.
00:19Well, one thing, you don't want to signal too much.
00:22You know, when we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we
00:27wanted surprise.
00:29Who knows better about surprise than Japan, okay?
00:33Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, okay?
00:37Right?
00:39He's asking me, no, you believe in surprise, I think, much more so than us.
00:45And we had a surprise, and we did.
00:48And because of that surprise, we knocked out, the first two days, we probably knocked out 50% of what
00:54we, and much more than we anticipated doing.
00:57So if I go and tell everybody about it, there's no longer a surprise, right?
01:02Okay?
01:03Okay.
01:12You
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