Don’t say you weren’t warned. Ahead of the Nato summit in Brussels today, Donald Trump had spent the last two days tweeting about the iniquity of Nato and the trade deficits between the EU and his country. He had singled out Germany for not contributing enough to Nato’s defence budget, and three times mentioned a $151bn trade deficit figure with Europe.
Sure enough, at this morning’s opening breakfast, he came out all rhetorical guns blazing, and then posted a clip of himself with all rhetorical guns blazing on Twitter.
So – while Britain debates whether it is morally right to have a giant baby Trump blimp flying over his head as he visits Britain on Friday – Donald Trump is busying himself with blowing up the western alliance, and taking the Germans head on.
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