Trump’s brusque threat to Europe: Go it alone.

President Donald Trump during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. Threatening to pull out of NATO, Trump portrayed the alliance as a “paper tiger” and said Europe was on its own in trying to secure the Strait of Hormuz, in an interview published in a British newspaper on April 1.(Doug Mills/The New York Times) By MICHAEL D SHEAR President Donald Trump lashed out at the Continent’s...

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