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President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States should have considered testing NATO by forcing member countries to respond to America’s southern border crisis.
Trump speculated in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. could have invoked Article 5 — the alliance’s collective defense clause that deems an attack on one member as an attack on all — thereby putting NATO “to the test.”
“Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks,” he wrote.
The president’s comments came after he has recently questioned NATO’s commitment to aiding the U.S.
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US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attend the start of a NATO leaders summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters)
“We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us,” the president wrote on social media earlier this month.
After meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Trump announced that he had the “framework of a future deal regarding Greenland.”
Trump wrote on Truth Social that if finalized, the deal “will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations.”
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President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. should have tested NATO’s commitment by invoking Article 5 in response to the southern border crisis. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)
Following the meeting, Trump said he would scrap a plan to impose tariffs on a group of NATO members who sent troops to Greenland amid the president’s efforts to acquire the island. Trump had asserted that those countries would be
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