NEW: Trump ‘Strongly Considering’ Pulling Out Of NATO

President Donald Trump is floating a dramatic break with NATO, saying he’s seriously weighing whether the U.S. should walk away from the alliance as tensions over the Iran war boil over.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Trump didn’t mince words when asked if NATO membership could be on the chopping block.

“Oh yes, I would say (it’s) beyond reconsideration… I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin knows that too, by the way.”

The comments land as NATO allies drag their feet on sending military support to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — a critical oil artery Iran effectively shut down after U.S. and Israeli strikes.

Trump has been hammering allies for days over what he sees as a lack of backbone. On Tuesday, he told countries scrambling for fuel to step up themselves.

“You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

The standoff cuts to the heart of NATO’s mission, collective defense under Article 5, where an attack on one member is treated as an attack on all. The clause has only been triggered once, after the September 11 attacks, when allies joined the U.S. in Afghanistan. More than 1,100 non-U.S. troops were killed in that conflict.

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Trump, however, has long questioned whether those allies would return the favor. He has repeatedly claimed NATO forces held back in Afghanistan and has kept up the pressure since the Iran conflict erupted on Feb. 28.

“Beyond not being there, it was actually hard to believe. And I didn’t do a big sale. I just said, ‘Hey,’ you know, I didn’t insist too much. I just think it should be automatic,” Trump told The Telegraph.

“We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine,” he said. “Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.”

The U.S. has provided intelligence support to Ukraine and allowed European nations to buy American weapons for Kyiv, but no new aid package has been approved since the Joe Biden administration.

Trump has also zeroed in on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, blasting London after it initially refused to allow U.S. forces to use British bases for strikes on Iran, citing legal concerns. Britain later joined defensive efforts after its own assets in the region came under attack.

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In the same interview, Trump mocked the UK’s military capabilities.

“You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work.”

“I’m not going to tell him what to do. He can do whatever he wants. It doesn’t matter. All Starmer wants is costly windmills that are driving your energy prices through the roof,” Trump added.

Starmer pushed back, defending NATO as “the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen” and making clear Britain won’t “get dragged into” the Iran war.

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