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4/9/2026, 5:25:18 AM
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Donald Trump is plotting revenge against NATO allies who failed to support his war in Iran by potentially removing US troops from member countries.
The President was reportedly mulling that drastic move after meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday amid a widening rift between Washington and the alliance.
'None of these people, including our own, very disappointing, NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them!'
Trump posted on Thursday morning.
The President, who had recently suggested the US could leave the alliance, expressed anger toward the bloc in a scathing social media post Wednesday night.
'NATO WASN'T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON'T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,' Trump wrote in an all-caps post.
'REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!'
Trump was referring to his potential ploy to annex Greenland, which is under Danish control.
Rutte was among the NATO leaders who lobbied Trump not to take over Greenland.
As a result of his frustration with the alliance, administration officials told The Wall Street Journal that Trump may move troops stationed in NATO countries that refused to help him wage a military campaign against Iran.
Trump is reportedly mulling over several different plans, but the military scheme has gained the most backing from senior White House officials.
Canada, the Czech Republic, Albania, North Macedonia, Lithuania, and Latvia are among the NATO members who have publicly backed the strikes on Iran.
The United Kingdom, Portugal and Germany have allowed the US to use military bases, but some NATO members have been neutral.
Trump was also angered as NATO allies Spain and France forbade or restricted the use of their airspace or joint military facilities for the US.
Trump's greatest disappointment comes after having repeatedly and unsuccessfully demanded that allies send warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
France, Spain and other nations, however, agreed to help with an international coalition to open the Strait of Hormuz when the conflict ends.
His disdain for the alliance has been brewing, especially after Germany, France, the UK, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Finland all moved troops to Greenland in a show of unity amid Trump's attempts to acquire the territory.
Rutte elaborated on Trump's frustration in an interview on Wednesday.
'He is clearly disappointed with many NATO allies, and I can see his point,' Rutte told CNN following his summit with Trump.
'But at the same time, I was also able to point to the fact that the large majority of European nations has been helpful with basing, with logistics, with overflights, with making sure that they live up to the commitments.'
Rutte, however, would not directly answer whether or not Trump threatened to pull the US out of NATO.
The Washington Post noted that Rutte appeared to have talked Trump out of any plan to end the US's involvement with NATO.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters before the meeting: 'I have a direct quote from the President of the United States on NATO, and I will share it with all of you: 'They were tested and they failed.''
'And I would add, it's quite sad that NATO turned their backs on the American people over the course of the last six weeks, when it's the American people who have been funding their defense.'
Leavitt said: 'Withdrawing from NATO... is something that the President will be discussing in a couple of hours with [Rutte] and perhaps you'll hear directly from the President following that meeting.'
In 2023, Congress passed a law that prevents any US president from pulling out of NATO without its approval.
Trump has been a longtime critic of NATO and, in his first term, had suggested he had the authority on his own to leave the alliance, which was founded in 1949 to counter the Cold War threat posed to European security by the Soviet Union.
The crux of the commitment its 32 member countries make is a mutual defense agreement in which an attack on one is considered an attack on them all.
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