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Trump interview : I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato
Exclusive: US president tells The Telegraph alliance is a ‘paper tiger’ and claims UK does not even have a navy
Washington Correspondent
Connor Stringer is The Telegraph’s Washington Correspondent.
Connor Stringer is The Telegraph’s Washington Correspondent. He leads coverage of the White House and US politics, reporting on trade, foreign policy and national security. Based in Washington, he has broken a series of world exclusives and covered the defining moments of Donald Trump’s administration.
Published 01 April 2026 10:56am BST
Donald Trump told The Telegraph: ‘I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger’ Credit: Aaron Schwartz/EPA/Shutterstock
Donald Trump has told The Telegraph he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato after it failed to join his war on Iran.
The US president labelled the alliance a “paper tiger” and said removing America from the defence treaty was now “beyond reconsideration”.
It is the strongest sign yet that the White House no longer regards Europe as a reliable defence partner following the rejection of Mr Trump’s demand that allies send warships to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Mr Trump was asked if he would reconsider the US’s membership of Nato after the conflict.
He replied: “Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”
Nato partners have been reluctant to help reopen the strait, through which 20 per cent of the world’s oil typically travels. Tehran has effectively closed the strait for weeks, sending global oil and gas prices spiralling while threatening a global recession.
Donald Trump pictured with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, European leaders and Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, in August last year Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
Mr Trump added: “Beyond not being there, it was actually hard to believe. And I didn’t do a big sale. I just said, ‘Hey’, you know, I didn’t insist too much. I just think it should be automatic.
“We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.”
Singling out the UK, the US president rebuked Sir Keir Starmer for refusing to get involved in the American-Israeli war against Iran, suggesting that the Royal Navy was not up for the task.
“You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work,” he said, referring to the state of Britain’s fleet of warships.
Asked whether the Prime Minister should spend more on defence, Mr Trump added: “I’m not going to tell him what to do. He can do whatever he wants. It doesn’t matter. All Starmer wants is costly windmills that are driving your energy prices through the roof.”
After speaking to The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr Trump had raised the issue of withdrawing from Nato with White House aides.
The newspaper said he had made comments to Mr Rubio and others in private but had made no final decision on the future of the alliance.
Following his comments, Sir Keir reaffirmed his support for Nato, describing it as “the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen”.
The Prime Minister signalled that he would seek a closer relationship with Europe in response to the souring of relations with Washington and said that, “whatever the noise”, he would act in the British interest.
He said: “This is not our war, and we’re not going to get dragged into it.”
On Tuesday, the First Sea Lord admitted that the Royal Navy was not ready for war, making him the most senior serving military figure to warn of the perilous state of the Armed Forces.
At the start of the conflict in Iran, four of Britain’s six destroyers were out of service and under repair. The UK has been forced to borrow a warship from Germany to fulfil its Nato obligations in the North Atlantic.
The White House has grown increasingly frustrated with long-time partners over their position on the war. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, accused Nato of being a “one-way street” as he hit out at US allies for not allowing access to their military bases.
Speaking on Fox News in the hours before the interview with Mr Trump, Mr Rubio said America would have to “re-examine” its Nato membership when the war in Iran came to an end.
“I think there’s no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded we are going to have to re-examine that relationship.
“If Nato is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, that’s not a very good arrangement. That’s a hard one to stay engaged in.”
Mr Trump told The Telegraph he was “glad” Mr Rubio made the comments.
