Trump Still Doesn't Understand How NATO Works Or That It Fought On America's Behalf

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Some legal experts, though, believe Trump could override that, citing presidential prerogative in national security matters.
38% : Trump, since taking office, has essentially switched sides, demanding that Ukraine give up territory to Russia and give the United States rights to its valuable mineral deposits while not asking any concessions at all from Putin.
37% : Trump has, since his first term, characterized NATO as sort of a protection racket, in which members must pay the United States money or not receive the benefit of the treaty's "Article 5," which states that an attack on one is an attack on all.
29% : Trump told reporters in an Oval Office news conference in which he again suggested that the U.S. would not come to the aid of a NATO member if it had not "paid" enough.
24% : In his remarks, Trump seemed neither to understand how NATO functions nor to know that the alliance has only come to the assistance of an attacked signatory once: to fight in Afghanistan alongside U.S. troops against al Qaeda and the Taliban.
14% : John Bolton, one of Trump's first-term national security advisers, has said that Trump was planning to withdraw from NATO in his second term, had he won reelection in 2020.

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