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"Donald Trump claimed Iranians were 'bullshit artists' - but reiterated that he was 'very disappointed' in NATO - as he briefed the press from the White House on Monday. "I'm very disappointed in NATO, very. I think that NATO, I think it's a mark on NATO that will never disappear, never disappear in my mind," he said. "You know, they're coming to see me on Wednesday. They're going to say, oh, we'll do this, we'll do that. Now they all of a sudden want to send things, you know." "But they said it loud and clear at the beginning when I spoke to UK of all. I would have said they would have been the first because they've been, they're the oldest," he went on. "And I say, yeah, I'd love to have a little help. Said, 'no, sir, we'd rather wait till you win'. I said, I don't need help after we win." Trump has repeatedly criticised his NATO 'allies' for failing to help him secure the Strait of Hormuz, singling out UK PM Sir Keir Starmer. "They have two old, broken aircraft carriers, barely work. I said, I guess we can use them. Who the hell knows? I called the general. He didn't even want to. He said, we don't really need them. We got the SS Abraham Lincoln, sir. We don't need them," he added. The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28. Tehran responded with strikes on Israel and US assets in the region, with the conflict now into its sixth week. Iran has reported over 2,000 deaths since the start of the war. The US has confirmed at least 13 military service personnel killed with around two dozen fatalities admitted by the Israeli side. "
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