Episode Details

Today, while the first female Prime Minister of Japan sat beside him in the Oval Office, Donald Trump turned Pearl Harbor into a punchline. Over 2,400 Americans died that day. It is a burial ground, a memorial, and a wound our two nations spent decades healing. Every president before him understood that. Every single one.

But the joke was just the beginning. In the same 27-minute exchange, Trump exposed his own lies about the war. Last night he posted that the U.S. "knew nothing" about Israel's strike on Iran's South Pars gas field. Today he admitted he spoke directly with Netanyahu about it. He also revealed that someone warned him the war would hurt the economy before he launched it, and he did it anyway.

The Breakdown:

Trump made a Pearl Harbor joke directly to Japan's PM Takaichi in the Oval Office

Over 2,400 Americans died at Pearl Harbor and sailors remain entombed in the USS Arizona

PM Takaichi's reaction revealed the moment she realized what kind of meeting this would be

Trump contradicted his own Truth Social post from hours earlier about Israel's strikes

He admitted speaking with Netanyahu about coordinated strikes after claiming the U.S. "knew nothing"

Trump said he "thought it would be worse" about the economic damage, revealing he was warned before the war

Japan is losing U.S. troops stationed in Okinawa as Marines are redeployed to the Middle East

China is escalating military exercises around Taiwan while America is distracted

Takaichi used the Shinzo Abe playbook of flattery to protect her country's alliance

Trump repeatedly took credit for Takaichi's election victory

The FCC waived a decades-old media ownership rule allowing Nexstar to reach 80% of American TV households

Eight state attorneys general are suing to block the $6.2 billion Nexstar-Tegna deal

Nexstar's CEO publicly thanked Trump and FCC Chairman Carr by name

The lone Democratic FCC commissioner called it a closed-door rubber stamp

Every authoritarian regime consolidates media before consolidating power

Independent media is more important than ever as corporate consolidation accelerates

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