European concerns over US commitment to Nato persist after Trump’s criticisms – Europe live

After threatening to withdraw from the alliance, the president did not mention it in his address to the nation, and will meet the secretary general, Mark Rutte, next week

It’s worth noting that while Trump didn’t mention Nato or address the European allies in his main address to the nation, he did take some digs at the alliance in a separate speech earlier last night – but we were not meant to know about them.

In a video from his private lunch, which was briefly posted on the White House YouTube channel before it was taken down, he questioned the value of Nato, arguing that the Iran war showed him that the alliance “won’t be there if we ever have the big one; you know what I mean by the big one.”