The United States they will never help Europe if it is attacked, they will leave NATO which is already dead, the then US president had said in 2020 Donald Trump to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, according to the commissioner Thierry Breton.

“You must understand that if the Europe attacked, we will never come to your aid and support,” Breton recounted Trump saying during a meeting — attended by the European commissioner — at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020.

“By the way, the NATO it’s dead,” and “we’re going to leave NATO,” Trump also said, according to the Commission official. Afterwards, Breton said the then US president said: “You owe me $400 billion! Why didn’t you pay, you guys Germanswhat you had to pay for the defense”.

Donald Trump is considered a favorite for the anointing Republicans in the 2024 presidential election, according to polls that predict a close matchup with a Democratic opponent Joe Biden.

In his previous term in White House (2017-2021), Trump had repeatedly broken with traditional allies of USA on trade and defense spending. During this election campaign, he has given little indication of the foreign policy he intends to pursue if he secures a second term as president. The claim that it could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, it had caused concern in several European capitals.

A spokesman for Biden’s campaign staff commented: “The notion that he would abandon our allies if he didn’t get his way demonstrates what we already know about Donald Trump: he only cares about himself!”