“I can confirm that the Secretary General will be in DC next week for a long-planned visit,” NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said. A White House official also confirmed the visit.
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No further details of the trip were immediately available.
Trump said he was considering pulling the U.S. out of the Western military alliance due to the refusal of European members to send ships to unblock the Strait of Hormuz.
In remarks on Wednesday to allies gathered for an Easter lunch at the White House, Trump criticized France and the United Kingdom, among other U.S. allies, as a “paper tiger.”
NATO, which includes European countries, the U.S. and Canada, was formed in 1949 with the aim of countering the risk of Soviet attack and has been the cornerstone of the West’s security ever since. “We’ve had some very bad allies in NATO,” Trump said. “Hopefully, we’re never going to need them. I don’t think we will need them.”
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