Krauthammer: ‘Really Hard to Understand’ Why Trump Didn’t Say He Supported Article Five

‘I thought overall the trip was very strong at the beginning’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "Is going to be a great decision on climate change. He may or may not, I’m not sure that it is going to matter very much. Climate change accord is extremely weak. It doesn’t have any enforcement. We are in it or out of it. I think it’s a marginal difference. I think everybody knows we are not where the Europeans are. I thought overall the trip was very strong at the beginning. Because it sent a message to Iran that eight years of appeasement are over and not only is it America that has now a new policy but it looks as if trump has rallied the Sunni Arabs with Saudi Arabia on that policy. That is extremely important message to the Middle East. I thought the European part was a disaster. The speech in nato and not because of the scolding and paying the dues. That’s okay. The Europeans deserve a scolding. This has been a 50-year complaint. But because the world was waiting for trump to say I support article 5. That was the purpose of the visit. And he wouldn’t say it. And that omission, I think, is going to have a lot of repercussions weakening nato unity over time. And it’s really hard to understand why he didn’t say it."

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