President Trump invoked Pearl Harbor during a heated meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House.

“I remember Pearl Harbor,” Trump told Abe on June 7 about the infamous Japanese attack that propelled the US into World War II, The Washington Post reported.

Trump then assailed Tokyo’s economic policies, lashing out against the US trade deficit with Japan and urging Abe to negotiate a bilateral trade deal that is more advantageous to US beef and auto exporters, sources familiar with the conversation told the paper.

The two leaders met after Trump had imposed steep steel and aluminum tariffs on Japan and other US allies, and just days before he traveled to Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The meeting left Abe exasperated, the paper reported — but despite the rancorous discussion, the two leaders have a warm rapport, have met eight times and talked on the phone 26 times.

“I’ve never heard him [trash]-talk Abe. And you can’t say that about a lot of the world leaders,” a US official told the news outlet on condition of anonymity to discuss a vital bilateral relationship.

But in recent months, the two men have been at loggerheads amid Trump’s unorthodox approach to North Korea and his negative view of Japan’s trade policies.

One diplomat said he could not explain Trump’s reference to Dec. 7, 1941, which President Franklin Roosevelt memorably described as “a day that will live in infamy.”

The diplomat added that Trump enjoys making historical references and frequently cites Japan’s “samurai past,” the Washington Post reported.

Shihoko Goto, a Japan expert at the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank, said: “Although disturbing, this rhetoric hardly veers from Trump’s comments against Japan on the campaign trail.

“His views of the Japanese economy then were based on the perceptions of the 1980s and ’90s, rather than the realities of today. So it may not be a surprise if his worldview, especially of Asia, is derived back from World War II, rather than today.”

According to Japanese officials, during tense exchanges, Abe waits for Trump to make his point, and finds an opening later in the conversation to rebut him.

“He understands if he categorically denies what the president says, it might hurt the president’s pride,” one Japanese diplomat said.