MSNOW Host Wants to Invoke the 25th Amendment on Trump for the DUMBEST Reasonhttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/22/msnow-host-wants-to-invoke-the-25th-amendment-on-trump-for-the-dumbest-reason-n4950929eave it to MSNOW to take a laugh line and turn it into a constitutional crisis.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump sat down with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for a bilateral meeting at the White House. During the meeting, a Japanese reporter pressed Trump on why U.S. allies — Japan included — weren't given advance notice before America's strike on Iran.
Trump's response was vintage Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" He followed it up with a grin: "No, I think you believe in surprise, I think much more so than us."
The room laughed. U.S. officials laughed. The press laughed. Everyone got the joke — and the very real point underneath it. Surprise is a legitimate military doctrine, and Trump made that case in about ten words while getting a chuckle out of what could have been a tense diplomatic moment. That's actually a skill.
Not everyone was amused, though. MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart decided that Trump’s quip was an effective constitutional crisis.
MSM stick up for each other, even internationally. The Japanese reporter ask a stooped question and got an unpleasantly apt reply. The underlying message, "We didn't want it leaked," may have been obscured, though.