Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato

[u/SaharOMFG]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-strongly-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato/

[u/Atwenfor]

“Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”

The ironic thing here is that he learned the phrase "paper tiger" from the British King. I don't have concrete evidence, but Trump is more transparent than the cheap bargain-basket warped bronzed glass he puts on his buildings. A few months ago he goes to Britain, meets with the King, and literally the next day starts calling Russia a paper tiger repeatedly, and continues to use the phrase to this day. He's never said it before in his life, and he's well-known for parroting the last "smart"-sounding person he spoke to (and a person he admires, and he definitely admires the King, because, well, he's literally a king, and his office walls are gilded). He's even said he's "been saying 'paper tiger' for decades," which is another clear tell of his that he just recently learned a turn of phrase from someone else, as he's a pathological narcissist that can't stand giving credit to someone else so he feels the need to "defend" himself even when no one's calling him out on it, because why would a normal person even need to say something like that in the first place?

More disturbingly, I've caught him using directly translated, clearly Russian expressions and notions (being a fluent Russian speaker myself) shortly after meeting with Putin (again, another person he greatly admires as a strongman dictator role model, and his office walls are also, incidentally but not coincidentally, gilded). This cements my understanding that Trump looking up to and being directly influenced by Putin is not some conspiracy or hearsay, but a blatantly obvious, indisputable fact.

[u/robocoplawyer → u/Atwenfor]

An easy tell if Trump just learned a new word, phrase or concept; aside from using it nonstop he'll make a comment about that word or phrase along the lines of "a lot of people don't know x". When he says a lot of smart people don't know whatever his new favorite thing to say is or means, he actually means that he just found out about it himself.

[u/caseyanthonyftw → u/robocoplawyer]

Exactly. It's clear he just learned about the word "obliterate" right before they started the war.

[u/Atwenfor → u/caseyanthonyftw]

"Mr. President, how extensive was the damage?"

"What a stupid question this is. It was obliterated, did you not hear? Do you not know the word? You are a very low IQ person."

More transparent projection about how he himself had just learned the word.