Trump to Takaichi: 'Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?'

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday startled Japan's prime minister by mentioning the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, a seemingly light-hearted remark sure to elicit unease in a country now a firm U.S. ally. Takaichi, who was relying on an interpreter, did not say anything but appeared to hold back a slight sigh as she shifted in her chair, with at least one audible groan heard in the room crowded with U.S. and Japanese reporters. Trump has justified his attack on Iran by saying it was about to have a nuclear weapon -- a claim not supported by the U.N. nuclear watchdog and most observers -- and has called for Iranians to overthrow their clerical state, although he has stopped short of making regime change a goal.