President Donald Trump is getting increasingly angry at US allies, including NATO itself, for refusing to help the US “secure” the Strait of Hormuz. “I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street—We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said on Truth Social yesterday.
Trump continued to chastise allies in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters that “all of our NATO allies were very much in favor of what we did” before later refusing to assist the U.S. in its war against Iran, reported Politico. “All of the NATO allies agreed with us, but they don’t want to—despite the fact that we’ve helped them so much, we have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world—they don’t want to help us, which is amazing,” the president said.
“NATO is making a very foolish mistake,” he went on to say. “You would’ve thought that they would’ve said, ‘We’d love to send a couple of mine sweepers.’ It’s not a big deal. It doesn’t cost very much money. But they didn’t do that,” he says.
“I didn’t do a full court press because I think if I did, they probably” have agreed to help, Trump claims, while again insisting that the US doesn’t need NATO’s help anyway.
