Date: Friday, 20 March 2026
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/trump-proudly-makes-americas-stooges
https://theduran.com/trump-proudly-makes-americas-stooges-squirm-in-public/
Trump proudly makes America’s stooges squirm in public.
20 March 2026, posted by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
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https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWF9YhsCYVb/
“Trump's Pearl Harbor joke in front of Japan's prime minister bombed harder than, well, you know...”
20 March 2026, The Daily Show
00:00
JORDAN KLEPPER: We are now almost three weeks into the war in Iran,
00:04
and it's not going great.
00:07
Oil prices are surging,
00:08
our planes are getting shot out of the sky,
00:11
and now Pete Hegseth is asking for an extra $200 billion
00:16
to fight this war. [The audience loudly voices its disapproval.]
00:21
And they say women be shopping, huh?
00:25
And on top of all of this,
00:27
our allies are angry that Trump started this war
00:30
without consulting them.
00:32
But, of course, President Trump is smoothing things over
00:35
with his trademark charm. [CLIP SHOWN:]
00:37
“Why didn't you tell U.S. allies in Europe and Asia,
00:43
like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?”
00:46
TRUMP: “Because we wanted surprise.
00:48
Who knows better about surprise than Japan?
00:51
Okay?
00:52
Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
00:54
Okay?” [Japanese PM scowls.]
00:59
Wow.
01:00
KLEPPER: The Japanese prime minister did not like that joke.
01:06
I haven't seen an American bomb in front of Japan
01:09
that badly since.
01:11
You get the idea.
01:13
Although I will give Trump credit, though.
01:16
He didn't do a Japanese accent,
01:18
so let's call that progress.
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MY COMMENT: It’s high time now for anyone who is decent among the MAGA crowd to go public that Trump is despicable. Any who don’t are.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
