With Friends Like These

The leader of the free world during his audience with Japanese PM Takaichi when asked by a Japanese reporter why he hadn't forewarned allies of the Iran attack: One thing you don’t want to signal too much, you know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” There was laughter in the room but the president had not finished. He asked mischievously: “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Suddenly the laughter died away. Takaichi’s eyes widened and she shifted in her chair as Trump evoked the moment that drew the US into the second world war.- The Guardian Could this not also be a reference, however oblique, to the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed 180,000 (conservative figure)? I'm not accusing that person of subtlety, mind you.