Javier C. Hernández, reporting for The New York Times:
He was responding to a question about why Japan and other
allies had received no advance notice of the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Iran.“We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise,” he
said. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan, OK? Why didn’t
you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK? Right?”There was some laughter from the officials and journalists
gathered in the room. “You believe in surprise, I think, much more
so than us,” he added.
As Trump sinks further into dementia and his presidency slides further into disarray, his administration, in a sick way, gets funnier and funnier.
