All posts tagged "Nato Summit"

A Trump biographer suggested that the reason Trump bombed Iran again was to get attention during the recent NATO summit.

During an episode of Inside Trump's Head podcast, biographer and author Michael Wolff said that the idea of Trump bombing Iran was to "upstage" his counterparts at the NATO summit.

"It sums up exactly who he is and what he does," Wolff said. "The only intention here is the attention paid to him."...

President Donald Trump responded to a reporter's questions about Iranian threats against Air Force One by telling them they were at risk, too.

While taking questions from a press gaggle on Air Force One on Wednesday, one reporter asked why the plane's blinds were closed and whether Trump was aware of any credible security threats from Iran.

"I have a threat all the time. I'm number one on their list — before you," Trump said. "But if I go, you go. So perhaps one day we want to change professions."...

President Donald Trump careened wildly off script at a NATO press conference in the Netherlands Tuesday to praise his "great victory" in Iran and to air his grievances with the U.S. news media for "maligning" U.S. troops.

"It's so, so sad that that whole thing had to go," Trump said of Iran's nuclear facilities, "but I just want to thank our pilots. You know, they were maligned and treated very bad, demeaned by fake news CNN, which is back there, believe it or not, wasting time, wasting — nobody's watching them. So, they're just wasting a lot of time, wasting my time. And The New York Times, they put out a story that, 'Well, maybe they were hit, but it wasn't bad.' Well, it was so bad that they ended the war. It ended the war."

Trump compared his airstrikes to the nuclear bombings of Japan that ended World War II....

BRUSSELS — NATO is committed to plans to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the alliance chief said Monday after France decided to end its fighting role a year earlier.

President Barack Obama's advisers are debating a shift in the military's mission in Afghanistan that would focus on advising Afghan forces while scaling back combat operations much earlier than planned, officials say.