Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said.

Multiple news outlets said the exchange between Trump and Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020 was described in Brussels on Tuesday by Thierry Breton, a French European commissioner responsible for the internal market, with responsibilities including defence.

“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,” Trump said, according to Breton, who was speaking at the European parliament.

According to Breton, Trump also said: “By the way, Nato is dead, and we will leave, we will quit Nato.”

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  • drewofdoom@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I mostly agree with your response, except for chastising OP about the color of the shirt. They start by mentioning brown, then parenthetically say “orange” as an unveiled reference to Trump.

    This is because Trump is known to use a LOT of bronzer that turns his skin an unusual orange color. So what OP was trying to do was to relate the brownshirts to the presumed task force that Trump would create if he became a dictator.

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      6 months ago

      It wasn’t about the colour of the shirt; that’s what you took from my comment?

      lol okay, my point had nothing at all to do with colours.

      Brownshirt == fascist paramilitary force

      Redcap == fascist paramilitary force

      Orange shirt == ?? Uh, maybe someone who should retake cosmetics finals?

      e: Oohh, you’re ai right? That’s something to be proud of I guess. (I’m joking)

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        6 months ago

        Bro agreed with you then pointed out that the other guy tried to make a joke about trump-variety brown shirts after you very specifically called it out as “inaccurate” and this is your response???

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          6 months ago

          Sorry, I was a bit drunk and mixed up a couple of things in my head.

          I’m a dipshit and should know better than to be online when drunk. That’s my bad.