Donald Trump has announced that he is ‘strongly considering’ pulling the United States out of NATO.Speaking to The Telegraph in a new interview, the 79-year-old US President was asked if he would think twice about America’s membership of the political and military alliance, after the conflict in the Middle East is over.His response was: “I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration.”The world leader brutally added, “I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”He also slammed UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and hit out at Britain’s military after the refusal to back America in the war with Iran.

“You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work,” he said.Trump’s words came just hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed that the US will ‘re-examine’ its relationship with NATO.The official told Fox News: “If now we have reached a point where the NATO alliance means we can’t use those bases to defend America’s interests, then NATO is a one-way street.”If NATO is simply about us having troops in Europe to defend Europe, but when we need them to allow us to use their military bases, their answer is no – then why are we in NATO?”And during a cabinet meeting last week, Trump said the war in Iran is a ‘loyalty test’ and hit out at NATO allies for not stepping up.As reported by C-SPAN, he demanded: “They weren’t there. So if there’s ever a big one … I don’t think they’re going to be there.”