Former President Donald Trump said last Saturday he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” if it attacked a NATO country that didn’t pay enough for defense.
On Wednesday, Trump doubled down at a rally in South Carolina, saying:
One of the heads of the countries said, ‘Does that mean that if we don’t pay the bills, that you’re not going to protect us?’ That’s exactly what it means. I’m not going to protect you.
As Democrats and their lapdog media launched into histrionic fits over Trump’s comments, the outgoing Dutch Prime Minister, likely the next NATO Secretary-General, said in effect: “Calm the hell down.”
And Prime Minister Mark Rutte was admonishing other European NATO leaders, no less. During the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Rutte bluntly said:
We should stop moaning and whining and nagging about Trump. It’s up to the Americans….
