RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoOval Office stunned as Trump fires Pearl Harbor joke at Japanese PMwww.rawstory.comexternal-linkmessage-square200fedilinkarrow-up1586arrow-down113cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1573arrow-down1external-linkOval Office stunned as Trump fires Pearl Harbor joke at Japanese PMwww.rawstory.comRandAlThor@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square200fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squarenailingjello@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·8 days agoFrom the article: “One thing, you don’t want to signal too much when we go in,” Trump said. “We went in very hard and we didn’t tell anyone about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 days ago Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Trump was what at that time? A middle aged nobody?
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·8 days agoTrump was born in 1946. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The war he dodged with his “bone spurs” was Vietnam, not WWII.
minus-squaremic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoNope, Trump is a very early boomer. He wasn’t born until After Pearl Harbor happened.
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoAre you sure he wasn’t 50 back then? I mean… look at him!
minus-squarebaronvonj@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agowell I was wrong so maybe you’re right!
From the article:
Trump was what at that time? A middle aged nobody?
Trump was born in 1946. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The war he dodged with his “bone spurs” was Vietnam, not WWII.
he was 5.
-5.
yes, my bad.
Nope, Trump is a very early boomer. He wasn’t born until After Pearl Harbor happened.
Are you sure he wasn’t 50 back then? I mean… look at him!
well I was wrong so maybe you’re right!
big oof