‘NATO calls me daddy,’ Trump says while touting influence over alliance
Global News
Trump's interview with Politico focused in part on a new national security strategy that sharply criticizes European allies and warns against NATO expansion.
U.S. President Donald Trump is touting his influence over the NATO military alliance, which he said “calls me daddy” in an interview that focused in part on his vision for Europe.
The interview with Politico was released Tuesday, days after the Trump administration released a new national security strategy that sharply criticized European allies and said America’s goal “should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory.”
Yet Trump insisted in the interview he has no desire to get involved in European politics.
“I want to run the United States. I don’t want to run Europe,” he said.
“I’m involved in Europe very much. NATO calls me daddy,” he added, pointing to the alliance’s adoption this year of Trump’s push to increase members’ share of defence spending from two per cent of GDP to five per cent.
Trump had repeatedly threatened to not come to NATO allies’ defence in the event of an attack unless they stepped up their military spending.
Canada, a founding member of the NATO alliance, has said it will reach the two per cent target this year and will be spending 3.5 per cent of GDP on core defence needs by 2035, with the remaining 1.5 per cent covered by defence-related infrastructure.
Trump’s new national security strategy says the U.S. should include “ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance.”
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