Angry Trump after NATO meeting: “Remember Greenland”

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Updated 07.35 | Published 01.51

          

          President Donald Trump during a press conference on Monday. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/TT

NATO will not be there when the US needs them, President Donald Trump rages after a meeting with the military alliance’s secretary general.

“Remember Greenland,” Trump writes in a post all in capital letters.

Trump received Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House after recently describing the long-standing alliance as a failure and hinting that the US may have to leave it.

Afterwards, Donald Trump made his statement through a post on the Truth platform written in capital letters and exclamation points:

"NATO was not there when we needed them, and they will not be there if we need them again," he writes, and brings up another point of friction in the cooperation:

"Remember Greenland, that big, poorly managed block of ice."

Has he followed through on his commitments?

The US president's interest in Greenland has previously caused a major crisis within NATO when he has actively chosen not to rule out military intervention against Denmark to conquer the island. Mark Rutte has previously played a major role in pouring oil on the waves.

Donald Trump is now criticizing the country's allies for, according to him, not having contributed enough in the war that the US and Israel have started against Iran.

– It was a very straightforward, very open discussion, Mark Rutte tells CNN after the meeting, in an interview where he does not give a direct answer to the question of whether Donald Trump announced an American withdrawal from NATO.

“Obviously disappointed”

Rutte says in a television interview with CNN that “some” member states have not done what they committed to do in connection with the Iran war, but that a large majority have “done what they promised in a case like this”.

– He (Trump) is clearly disappointed with many NATO allies, and I can understand what he means.

It is not clear which countries the disappointment is directed at.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s government sources, the US president is considering punishing individual NATO countries that he believes have not been helpful enough. It is reported that this could then involve moving US forces stationed abroad to other countries that are considered more accommodating.