Trump on NATO: "I was doing a test. They didn't do it. And that's small potatoes. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

[Miles Archer]

Aaron Rupar

‪@atrupar.com‬
Trump on NATO: "I was doing a test. I said, 'I'd love to have you come up. Bring your boats. You can sail through the beautiful Hormuz Straits and you can protect people that are being shot at.' They didn't do it. And that's small potatoes. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Trump on NATO: "I was doing a test. I said, 'I'd love to have you come up. Bring your boats. You can sail through the beautiful Hormuz Straits and you can protect people that are being shot at.' They didn't do it. And that's small potatoes. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-26T16:10:44.378Z

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. More trump word salad

[lame54]

2. Potato salad

[niyad]

4. At least potato salad is useful.

[Ocelot II]

5. Yes, it's word salad, but I think what he's trying to say

is that he was "testing" NATO to see if they would help open the Strait of Hormuz, and they failed the test when they didn't (even though they were under no obligation to do it). "Nice little alliance ya got there, be a shame if anything would happen to it." It's word salad with a dressing of mob boss.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Yes it is psychopath mob boss language.

Stating he had tricked NATO into some sort of loyalty test.
They flunked and will pay the price.

[niyad]

3. No, you fucking incoherent war criminal, we have NO FUCKING IDEA

what you are trying so ineptly to convey.

[Ocelot II]

6. I'm pretty sure I know. See #5.

[niyad]

9. Oh, we all know he is threatening and raging, regardless of whatever verbal

diarrhea he unloads.

[MiHale]

7. Someone should mention to him that 'beautiful'...

Is a word only Democrats use…watch the mental stuttering to try to find another word. Everything is beautiful to him..it’s one of his favorite words.

[Redleg]

10. Trump doesn't understand that NATO is a mutual defense agreement, not a license for

an attack against another nation that is not posing an immediate threat to the security of NATO states

[flvegan]

11. 77 million shitbag Americans voted for this walking cuckoo clock

and 10s of millions couldn't be bothered to show up at all, giving us...this.

[Johonny]

12. He started a trade war with the world

And then a shooting war in the middle east, and wonders why he doesn't have allies.

People treat you, how you treat them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. This was a test for dementia

It's actually a dementia test. And doctors *only* give it to patients when they see signs of mental decline to gauge how bad it is.

The fact that Donald is bragging that this has happened at least three times underscores why doctors thought he was experiencing mental decline.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-03-26T20:07:01.143Z