"Italy has done a lot of harm with its bases." Donald Trump reiterated this once again today, speaking with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the start of the summit in Ankara. The tycoon returned to attacking Rome for its lack of support in the war in Iran, but Giorgia Meloni isn't the only one in the US president's sights; he has something for everyone.
Starting from Spain : «A terrible ally, I don't want to have relations with them , trade relations are over, they are a hopeless case: there are also a couple of other countries but Spain is particularly hostile».
And then all the NATO allies: "I'm angry because we paid so much, we paid billions of dollars, and this is unfair because we were protecting them and we protected them, but they weren't there for us. When we said we could be there for them and they could be there for us, we spent billions of dollars to protect these countries from Russia . And this has nothing to do with us because we have an ocean between us. We were treated unfairly , we paid much more. There was a time when we were practically paying 100% and the other countries paid nothing. They are bad people."
Trump then returned to claiming Greenland , attacking Denmark and recalling how it was defeated in the blink of an eye by Nazi Germany: "Greenland is a big deal to me. It's very important to the United States and it's not important to Denmark . We took Greenland and, stupidly, we gave it back. We need Greenland for the protection of the world, not just for the protection of the United States. And it doesn't help Denmark, but it helps us, and it's very important to us. And Denmark was defeated, basically, in less than a day by Hitler, by the Nazis, and when that happened we had Greenland, we got it, but I don't know why we gave it back. Obviously I wouldn't have done that , I definitely wouldn't have done that."
The only words of "love" were for the Chinese enemy: "They treated us positively," he said, comparing the lack of assistance from European countries to the deal with Beijing over TikTok. "I'm the number one person on TikTok, with about 4 billion views."
