‘We Don’t Need Anybody’: Trump Lashes Out at U.S. Allies

Some are very enthusiastic and some are less than enthusiastic, and I assume some will not do it. I think we have one or two that will not do it, that we’ve been protecting for about 40 years. Why are we protecting countries that don’t protect us? And I’ve always felt that was a weakness of NATO. We were going to protect them. But I always said, when in need, they won’t protect us. We don’t need anybody. We’re the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world. We don’t need them. But it’s interesting — I’m almost doing it in some cases, not because we need them, but because I want to find out how they react. Because I’ve been saying for years that if we ever did need them, they won’t be there.