U.S. President Donald Trump said he is strongly considering withdrawing the United States from NATO, in comments published on April 1.
Trump told UK newspaper The Telegraph in an April 1 interview that he is seriously reconsidering U.S. membership in NATO, saying that his request for assistance in the Strait of Hormuz was a test that allies didn’t pass.
Describing the alliance as a “paper tiger,” Trump said removing the United States from the pact was now “beyond reconsideration.”
“I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way,” Trump said….
