Yes.

He has dementia, this isn’t it though. This is his true self.

I hate Trump. Fuck Trump.

However, out of all the disgusting and ghastly shit Trump has done and said, this one is not that bad. Poor taste, sure. Racist? Come on. Did you even read it? It was actually witty compared to his typical knuckle dragging bullshit.

A reporter asked Trump why he didn't tell U.S. allies, including European and Asian countries, such as Japan, that he was planning joint military strikes with Israel on Iran.

"One thing, you don't want to signal too much when we go in," Trump said. "We went in very hard and we didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

This guy is a sex predator, pedo who is trying to be a dictator and is taking our democratic rights away. Let's focus on that first. Don't let this petty bullshit be the focus.

I'll take my downvotes now.

Why not both.

Well...she's a huge fan of Trump so she deserves all she gets.

It's damn both.

With Donald you never have to choose.

Both. He's always been racist, but dementia removes what filters do exist.

Probably a mixture of all three, most people would be smart enough to keep that thought in their head.

Coming up with the analogy is just his regular poor taste and racism. Not realizing that it paints the US as the equivalent to the Japanese in WWII is his dementia.

He's brought it up before in dealing with Japanese diplomats

Not to worry. He’s going to be SLAMMED for this. Perhaps even someone will BLAST him. And since journalism is literal Pokémon moves now he might even be CONFUSED or HYPNOTIZED

Or even just 9 months ago, when he told the leader of Germany that D-Day "was not a pleasant day for you."

He's a sociopath, no two ways about it. I remember a story his nephew told about bringing his developmentally disabled son (can't remember the exact condition) to the White House and having multiple meetings with Trump about setting up a bill that would benefit Americans, including his own great-nephew. In one of those meetings, after it had all seemed positive, everyone left the room but Trump and his nephew, to whom Trump immediately said "be a lot easier and less expensive if all these disabled kids would just die".

Sauce

He doesn't believe in good guys, he thinks everyone is just as evil as him so it makes his continuous assault on all limits of human decency OK in his mind.

I mean, you can do a pre-emptive surprise strike against a foreign military and still be the "good guys". It's just that we aren't the good guys when we did this pre-emptive military strike against a foreign military.... Or grade school girls... Because our top military brass has been replaced by retards loyal to trump.

If you assume he thinks of himself as Nazi Germany it makes more sense.

Japan didn't notify Hitler of the planned attack.

I guarantee you he does not.

Also, Germany (Japan’s biggest ally) was pissed when they heard about Japan’s attack, because they were hoping to conquer all of Europe before they even considered taking on America. The surprise attack was a surprise to Germany too. And not a welcome one.

And sure enough, America’s allies all balked when Trump begged them for help in securing the strait.

How did you not realise the obviousness of the answer while typing? He so far from being able to comprehend anything on that level. It's like asking if a toddler can't understand the nuances of different ideologies on the same side of the left-right political system.

They tell me, sir..... They come to me and say, mr president you do it the best. Embodying the most tremendous and bad stuff about the US. Nobody does it like you sir.....

This is what we deserve for decades of celebrity worship, it is strangely appropriate that he is our President

Remember that the US nuked Japan in response.

Twice.

They also put a tooon of Japanese people in camps

Same thing they're starting to do to immigrants, trans people, and dissenters

They did not nuke Japan as a response to Pearl Harbor. It was a response to Japan stupidly ignoring the Potsdam Declaration when Germany had already been defeated.

That headline surprised me too. Other than Takeuchi, why would anyone accustomed to being in the room be surprised that he would say something stupid?

I don't work near the tangerine, I can't stand listening to him, I wish I never had to hear his voice again.

The only I didn't expect in this was that he was in the room with the Japanese PM. Not even really a surprise, just didn't know that was happening.

If anything, they'd be stunned that he didn't just walk up and violate her in some way; Unlikely as that would be, given she's a grown adult woman.

Japan has been known to fire/jail their PMs so she might be pushed to do something like sell-off their US bonds.

Even Trump seemed to notice it didn’t land that well.

That is something I don't believe

Japan is like the rest of the world, they bought into the idea US was too big to fail. You can't just "dump" $1T in bonds.