“Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO,” Trump said when asked if he would reconsider the U.S.' membership after the conflict. “I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”
Trump criticized the nations for not stepping up, insisting his call for action had been a “test.”
The U.S. President went on to single out the U.K., issuing another public rebuke of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has refused, beyond defensive measures, to be an active participant in the Iran war.
“I’m not going to tell him what to do. He can do whatever he wants. It doesn’t matter. All Starmer wants is costly windmills that are driving your energy prices through the roof,” he said.
“Whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the noise, I'm going to act in the British national interest in all the decisions that I make, and that's why I've been absolutely clear that this is not our war, or we're not going to get dragged into it,” he said during a press briefing.
“NATO is the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen. It has kept us safe for many decades,” he argued.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, said the U.S. may need to “re-examine” its relationship with NATO once the war ends.
Though Rubio did not name specific countries, Trump has repeatedly singled out the U.K. for its initial refusal to allow U.S. forces to use British bases for strikes on Feb. 28. Spain has also denied the U.S. permission to use jointly-operated bases to attack Iran and earlier this week closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the war.
“A lot has been laid bare, a lot has been shown to the world, about what our allies would be willing to do for the United States of America,” he told reporters Tuesday. “When we ask for additional assistance… we get questions, or roadblocks, or hesitations.”
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949 and there are now 32 countries in the Western alliance.
The U.S., Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom signed the Washington Treaty, or the North Atlantic Treaty, in April 1949.
During his first term in the White House (and the early months of his second term), Trump aired his grievances with NATO, largely over defense spending and how much each member country contributes. He argued that the U.S. shouldn’t have to pay the most towards defense.
Can Trump legally pull the U.S. out of NATO?
The U.S. has been a core NATO member since its founding, though Trump has previously refused to rule out withdrawing from the alliance—most recently in January during a dispute over his ambitions to annex Greenland.
“Yet those legal constraints remain far from solid," she added.
“Trump could seek to circumvent Congress’ statutory constraint by invoking presidential authority over foreign policy, an approach he has floated before to bypass congressional limits on treaty withdrawal,” Gioia told TIME over email.
Trump “could frame NATO withdrawal as necessary for national defense, citing broad Commander-in-Chief authority (Article II, Section 2),” she said, but there would need to be a strong argument to support that.
Bradley said that due to the Supreme Court often ruling in favor of the Trump Administration, Congress may find it difficult to win against him in the courts, but legal backlash could stem from elsewhere.
Despite Trump having options, the legalities involved are, at best, murky, the experts agreed.
Referring to the alliance as the “most important mutual defense treaty of the post-WWII era,” Bradley said a U.S. exit would be surprising, and that it’s far more likely we’ll see continued “tensions with NATO” rather than a formal withdrawal.
—Additional reporting by Callum Sutherland
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