Trump humiliates Macron with six-word stab in the heart over Iran war | US | News
President Donald Trump gave a shocking response when asked about French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to participate in NATO operations to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
“He’ll be leaving office very soon, so we’ll have to see,” Trump said Tuesday as he met Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the White House for the annual St. Patrick’s Day reception.
Trump’s comment followed Macron’s statement that France “will never participate in a task force in the Strait of Hormuz until hostilities end” and underlined divisions among US allies over the ongoing US-Israeli military campaign in Iran.
Minutes into his meeting with the Taoiseach, Trump launched a blistering attack on NATO allies over the Iran war, condemning them for refusing to “engage” in the US-Israeli military operation against the “Iranian Terrorist Regime”.
The president published a lengthy Truth Social post just after 3pm EST in which he chastised NATO allies for refusing to participate in the military operation; yet “nearly every Country strongly agrees with what we are doing, and Iran cannot be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon of any kind.”
While the president added that he was not surprised by the reluctance of NATO countries to join the war, he reiterated his claim that the United States “maintains a one-way relationship with the organization of world powers.”
“I have always seen NATO as a one-way street, where we spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year to protect the same countries. We will protect them, but they will not do anything to us, especially in times of need,” he said.
Ireland’s economic framework depends heavily on US investment. Ireland, Apple Inc., Eli Lilly & Co. and Microsoft Corp. It generates billions of euros in tax revenue every year from US multinational companies such as.
Traditionally, the St. Patrick’s Day meeting has given Ireland the opportunity to exercise its soft power, but a sense of friction has increased between the two countries due to Trump’s recent statements that European countries are exploiting the United States.
Martin faced criticism from his government counterparts for continuing to meet in the wake of the US-Iran war.
Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill are boycotting St. Patrick’s Day events in the US to protest the administration’s stance on Gaza.
Ahead of his meeting with President Trump, Martin claimed he “did not feel under pressure” to address the conflict in the Middle East.
Last week, Labor’s Foreign Affairs spokesman Duncan Smith called on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to follow the lead of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in strongly challenging President Trump.
Smith’s call came during Martin’s meeting with the Spanish Prime Minister at his home in La Moncloa in Madrid last Tuesday.
