Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoTrump: I am strongly considering pulling out of NATOwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1153arrow-down1external-linkTrump: I am strongly considering pulling out of NATOwww.telegraph.co.ukParanoid Factoid@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square46linkfedilinkfile-text
Archive: https://archive.is/2026.04.01-130951/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-strongly-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato/
minus-squarefavoredponcho@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoHe can’t. He doesn’t have the authority to. Congress ratifies treaties. Congress cancels treaties.
minus-squareParanoid Factoid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoThere was also legislation in 2023 to prevent a potential future Trump Administration from exiting out of NATO without 2/3 Senate approval or an act of congress. Ironically, it was sponsored by then Senator Marco Rubio. https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/can-donald-trump-withdraw-the-us-from-nato
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoYah, that’s how its supposed to work. Except in bizarro world.
He can’t. He doesn’t have the authority to. Congress ratifies treaties. Congress cancels treaties.
There was also legislation in 2023 to prevent a potential future Trump Administration from exiting out of NATO without 2/3 Senate approval or an act of congress. Ironically, it was sponsored by then Senator Marco Rubio.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/can-donald-trump-withdraw-the-us-from-nato
Yah, that’s how its supposed to work. Except in bizarro world.