The hysteria over Donald Trump’s Feb. 10 remarks at a campaign event in South Carolina, during which he called into question the U.S. commitment to NATO, is not limited to Europe. In Washington NATO supporters in the U.S. Congress are worried about how to “Trump-proof” NATO, for the eventuality that Trump is elected President in November “Everyone should be scared as hell,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), reported Politico. “Anybody who cares about American leadership, anyone who cares about protecting democracy, anybody who wants to take on authoritarians around the world should be scared to death by the fact that Donald Trump is telling us that if he was reelected President, he would throw our NATO allies to [Vladimir] Putin.”