How Trump’s ‘careless’ Pearl Harbour joke in Oval Office shook eighty years of US-Japan diplomacy | World News
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) In the Oval Office on Thursday, Donald Trump made a joke about Pearl Harbour to the Japanese prime minister’s face. It lasted seconds. It undid…