When the Japanese live translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure.

Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.

@Strandjunker

IDK, he probably said something that popped into his head, it happened to also serve a crude dominance function, and supporters will call it 4D chess while critics call it a gaffe.