Then president told European commissioners in 2020 that ‘Nato is dead’ and the US would never defend Europe if it were attacked

Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said.

Multiple news outlets said the exchange between Trump and Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020 was described in Brussels on Tuesday by Thierry Breton, a French European commissioner responsible for the internal market, with responsibilities including defence.

“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,” Trump said, according to Breton, who was speaking at the European parliament.

According to Breton, Trump also said: “By the way, Nato is dead, and we will leave, we will quit Nato.”

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  • @CobblerScholar
    15•11 months ago

    Unless he really does mean it and tries to play it off as a joke when the crowd turns on him

    • @[email protected]
      10•11 months ago

      Speaking of crowds turning on Trump, I gotta say, it was kind of amusing to witness how desperately he wanted credit for the COVID vaccines but had to stop talking about it because his plague rat base boo’d him for promoting vaccination at one of his own klan rallies.

      The only thing stopping it from being downright hilarious was that, well, ya know… It was a deadly serious public health crisis being exasperated by god damn morons.

      • @shalafiEnglish
        7•11 months ago

        1 million dead Americans under his watch. Including my mother. I will never forgive, never forget. And now plenty more are dying for lack of being vaccinated, and killing the rest of us for lack of a fucking mask.

    • @shalafiEnglish
      10•11 months ago

      Nitpick; Trump never plays his statements off as a joke. His sycophants do, but never the man himself.

      Remember everyone being shocked by, ‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing?

      He says what he means, and he’s quite literal. Major reason his detractors get confused. Yes, he said that. Yes, he meant it literally.

      Sane people: “Politicians can’t talk that way!”

      Trump supporters: “He speaks truth!”

      I kinda get the nut cases on this one. I’ve always wanted a politician that “tells it like it is”, with cojones. I just don’t like Trumps “truth”.