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'You Must Be Fun at Parties': CNN's Jake Tapper Fact Checks Trump's Pearl Harbor Joke to the Japanese PM

Doug P.
Doug P.  |  4:10 PM on March 19, 2026

Today President Trump met with the Prime Minister of Japan at the White House, and she expressed confidence in his ability to achieve peace: 

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The two leaders also took some questions from the gathered press.

As we told you earlier, Trump was asked why he didn't give U.S. allies a heads-up before Operation Epic Fury was ordered to begin. Sometimes we think Trump says things just to trigger his TDS-addled detractors on the Left, and this might have been one of those times: 

Of course the usual anti-Trump Democrats are triggered by what was an obvious joke: 

Sure, we need to hear more of that from the same people who insisted Biden was just fine. But the Left's outrage machine needed more fuel today so this will help provide that. 

Not surprisingly some in the media will pretend not to understand what was said and why, including CNN's Jake Tapper, who provided a fact check: 

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Really? You mean that lady wasn't the Emperor of Japan at the start of World War II? We're shocked... SHOCKED (cue massive eye roll). 

Or at least they have to pretend not to in order to try and "fact check" what was clearly a joke. 

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