President Trump Doubles Down On NATO

President Trump has once again called out NATO.

On Thursday morning, President Trump called out NATO for being incapable of doing anything unless pressure is placed on them.

Trump’s comments come just a day after he called out the organization for folding when the United States needed them the most.

Take a look:

🚨TIME TO LEAVE NATO! They are useless! pic.twitter.com/8LTcqOV7Wa

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) April 9, 2026

The New York Times reported more on Trump’s frustrations with NATO:

President Trump has hit out at NATO after a tense meeting with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the military alliance, at the White House on Wednesday.

Mr. Rutte had traveled to Washington to try to assuage Mr. Trump’s anger that NATO members had refused to participate in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and help open up the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil and gas shipping route. But Mr. Rutte conceded that it was not an easy meeting, calling it “very frank” and “very open,” despite clear disagreements.

Mr. Trump, who has also complained that the alliance has refused to hand over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO member Denmark, to the United States, was not satisfied.

“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN,” he wrote on social media after the meeting. “REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!”

Mr. Trump did not say that he was pulling the United States out of NATO, however, which was a topic to be discussed during the meeting, the White House said.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, on Wednesday quoted Mr. Trump as saying that NATO was “tested and they failed.” NATO countries, she added, had “turned their backs on the American people” who help fund their defense.

Mr. Rutte said on CNN that he reminded Mr. Trump that many NATO allies, including Britain, had allowed American forces to use their bases, even if some tried to distinguish between American missions that were “defensive” or “offensive.”

NATO’s Secretary General has since responded to Trump:

CNN’s Jake Tapper: “The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the president is weighing punishing some NATO allies for not being helpful to the U.S. and Israel during the war.”

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: “Yes, it’s true, not all European nations lived up to those… pic.twitter.com/3IwcavKD45

— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 8, 2026

Mike Cernovich has claimed that Trump wants to back out of NATO in order to get into a war with Turkey:

Trump wants to leave NATO because Turkey is a member, and war with Turkey is next up from the donor class. https://t.co/xZw3nPae5p

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 8, 2026

Others have shared the same angle:

Turkey is a NATO country

The US wants to withdraw from NATO so it can attack Turkey with Israel

That’s it. https://t.co/sFfF3zxyOC

— Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel (@MirabelTweets1) April 8, 2026