The two leaders met Thursday as Trump’s war in Iran continues to strain the global economy. Trump took the majority of questions from reporters before asking for one more from one of the “beautiful” Japanese correspondents. When we went in, we went in very hard, and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise,” he said. “Hmm,” said the prime minister, who was born two decades after Imperial Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii. Advertisement“No, you believe in surprise, I think much more so than us,” Trump went on.

Source: Huffington Post March 20, 2026 06:12 UTC