President’s impossible ‘memory’

President Trump is not exactly a history buff.

During intense trade negotiations in June with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (photo), Trump dropped a bizarre reference to the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, according to a report Tuesday by the The Washington Post.

“I remember Pearl Harbor,” the President said, before launching into a rant about Japan's trade policies.

Trump has made other odd references to the 1941 attack that left 2,403 Americans dead and prompted the U.S. to enter World War II.

The President, born five years after the bombing, flubbed a quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt last year as he attempted to honor the 76th anniversary of the solemn day.

"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day — 'A day that will live in infamy!' December 7, 1941," he tweeted.

When Roosevelt addressed a Joint Session of U.S. Congress nearly eight decades ago, he actually declared Dec. 7 as “a date which will live in infamy.”

Trump, while signing a presidential proclamation last year, also called the surprise bombing a “pretty wild scene.”

The use of somewhat illworded historical references appears to be a Trump motif. In May, Trump reportedly had a testy exchange with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over tariffs.

Trudeau pressed Trump on how he could justify tariffs on steel and aluminum as a “national security” issue.

The President responded by asking Trudeau, "Didn't you guys burn down the White House?”

The reference to the War of 1812 didn't quite work, as it was British troops who torched the White House following an attack by Americans on the then-British colony of York, Ontario.