Key Highlights
- Is he prepared to blow up the Nato alliance that formed when he was a toddler?“You’ll find out,” the US president replied when a reporter posed that question to him during a lengthy, rambling press conference on Tuesday. Trump also declined to offer any reassurances that Nato leaders were craving about his commitment to the stability of the transatlantic alliance after his threats to take over the Danish-controlled Arctic territory by force. The president repeated multiple times that he had done more for Nato than anyone else, as part of suggestions that he should have free rein to shape its future and what territories the US controlled.“I’ve made it so much better, so much stronger.
- It’s so good now.
- Nato is so much stronger,” Trump said.
- “When I came here we had a weak Nato … they were a nothing Nato.
- Whether you like it or not, it’s only as good as we are.
