Jon Favreau

Trump has also been ranting about NATO, posting, quote, NATO wasn't there when we needed them, and they won't be there if we need them again.

Remember Greenland, that big, poorly run piece of ice, okay?

You would think all this might have made for an awkward meeting between Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday, but not so, according to Rutte.

Is the world safer today?

Dan, do you still consider Trump daddy?

That guy... Go ahead.

You defend Mark Rutte.

As you did in our morning meeting.

Even if Trump...

doesn't formally pull out of NATO, which he would need to go to Congress for anyway, or who knows, maybe in a Truth Social post he'll do it.

Maybe he doesn't do that.

If you're Vladimir Putin and you have eyes on potentially invading a NATO country, do you really think the United States is going to come to the defense of NATO militarily or even otherwise if you go ahead and invade at this point?

Probably not.

And that's the whole alliance right there.

Yeah.

That's the whole point of NATO.

Now, Trump seems to think in these posts, Trump seems to think NATO is like like you because you're in NATO, whatever one country wants to do in NATO and whatever wars they want to pursue and invasions and bombings they want to do, then everyone else has to join, too.

But you're like, come on, we're NATO.

You've got to help me.

He doesn't realize it's a defensive alliance.