Donald Trump left a room in shocked silence after making a joke about the attack on Pearl Harbor in front of the Japanese Prime Minister.The aftermath of the surprise attack on the US naval base was described as ‘a date that will live in infamy’ by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941.In a press briefing with Japanese prime minster Sanae Takaichi, Trump went on to make a joke about the attack.A Japanese journalist asked the US president about why the US didn’t inform its allies about its plans to attack Iran, to which Trump responded by saying that the US ‘went in very hard’ and ‘didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.’Things started to become awkward when the US president then said: “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?”While this comment drew polite laughter from US officials in the meeting, the room was then plunged into silence at Trump’s next remark.

Turning to Sanae, Trump said: “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?” Have a listen here:One person could be heard audibly groaning, before the room was plunged into silence.rump then went back to the question, saying: “You believe in surprise much more so than us. He’s asking me about surprise, and we did.”He added: “And because of that surprise, we knocked out … we probably knocked out 50 percent … and much more than we anticipated doing.So if I go and tell everybody about it, there’s no longer a surprise.”One X user said in their view, Sanae was ‘obviously upset’ by the ‘unnecessary’ comment.