U.S. president Donald Trump said on Wednesday, January 7th, he doubted allies would “be there for us if we really needed them.”
“We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform, a day after the White House said it was not ruling out military intervention to acquire Greenland.
In his post, Trump repeated his frequent assertion that many members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization had failed to meet military spending commitments until he intervened.
“The USA was, foolishly, paying for them! I, respectfully, got them to 5% GDP, AND THEY PAY immediately,” he wrote.
But the U.S. leader added that the NATO member countries are “all my friends.”
Trump, whose renewed threats to seize Greenland from NATO member Denmark have rattled the transatlantic alliance, also touched on a personal grievance:
I single-handedly ENDED 8 WARS, and Norway, a NATO Member, foolishly chose not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump concluded by saying that Russia and China have “zero fear of NATO” without the United States as part of the alliance. Referring to himself using his initials, he proclaimed “The only Nation that China and Russia fear and respect is the DJT REBUILT U.S.A.” [sic].