The Moron-in-Chief Doesn’t Understand How Alliances Work

THE AMERICAN BULLY HAS NO FRIENDS LEFT. HE IS IN DEEP TROUBLE BUT THEY WON'T HELP HIM BECAUSE HE'S SUCH AS ASS.

Donald Dumb is  like a spoiled child who kicks and bites the other kids and doesn't understand why they won't play with him. It reminded me of a song I first heard sung by Diane Keaton in the movie "Reds", a song that the Allies-No-More of the US no longer want to sing along with the imbecile bully the dumb American people elected to be their leader.

I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard
By H.W. Petrie and Philip Wingate (1894)

[Original excerpts)
I don't want to play in your yard,
I don't like you any more,
You'll be sorry when you see me,
Slid-ing down our cellar door,

You can't holler down our rain barrel,
You can't climb our apple tree,
I don't want to play in your yard
If you won't be good to me.

[Modified verses]
We don't wanna join your Iran war
We don't like you anymore
We are tired of your antics
And your senile semantics

You can holler like a madman
Please don't can't call us anymore
We don't wanna join your war games
If you won't be nice to us. 

Trump Finds Out That After Insulting Allies Forever, They Don't Feel Like Helping Him
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Updated Tue, March 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM GMT+2·5 min read

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may be learning the hard way that berating, insulting and threatening America’s traditional allies for years makes persuading them to bail you out of a jam more difficult.

NATO countries have been cool to Trump’s demand they send warships to help the U.S. Navy safeguard the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow opening to the Persian Gulf that oil tankers are currently unwilling to transit because of the threat posed by Iran, which Trump and Israel began attacking two weeks ago.

During a question-and-answer session with reporters Monday at the White House, Trump continued complaining that other nations — none of whom was consulted prior to the start of the air attacks — were not “enthusiastically” responding to Trump’s request.

“They should be in here very happily helping us,” he said. “They should be jumping to help us because we’ve helped them for years.”

Trump has spent many years, from even before his first term, calling other NATO members freeloaders and mischaracterizing the alliance as a form of protection scheme in which other nations were supposed to pay “dues” to the United States.

“Trump doesn’t understand how alliances work. He wants what he wants when he wants it. It’s just that simple,” said John Bolton, one of Trump’s national security advisers in his first term who disclosed that Trump had planned to withdraw from NATO had he won reelection in 2020.

After he returned to office last year, Trump disparaged NATO member Canada and said it should be the 51st state while also threatening a military seizure of Greenland from Denmark, another NATO ally. The Greenland threats, even as they were largely mocked as unserious in the United States, provoked a monthslong crisis in Europe.

Now, after attacking Iran without first seeking any input from those and other allies, he is expressing dismay that they are not eagerly sending ships and service members to ease the global energy calamity he himself created, which has caused domestic gasoline prices to jump more than 70 cents a gallon.


A man holds a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump after a news conference against Trump's demands to multiple countries to send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, on March 16. via Associated Press

Trump on Monday again repeated his false claim that NATO would not stand by the United States: “I always said when in need they won’t protect us.”

In fact, the alliance’s mutual defense clause, spelled out in Article 5 of the charter and which states that an attack on one nation is treated as an attack on all, has only been invoked once: following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.

Trump, however, speaks as if Article 5 language requires its members to join with the United States in an offensive war of choice, which it does not.

“He’s so confused. He never did understand NATO,” said Jim Townsend, a former staffer at the Defense Department and NATO and now with the Center for a New American Strategy, a center-left think tank.

Jan Techau, with the Center for European Policy Analysis in Berlin, said he’s not sure Trump much cares about the treaty’s actual language. “He looks at dependencies, power relationships. If he thinks he can put pressure on NATO members that way, he does it,” he said.

Thus far, that effort seems to be falling short.

“What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates that the powerful U.S. Navy cannot do? This is not our war, we have not started it,” German defense minister Boris Pistorius said in Berlin on Monday.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, while saying he supports a plan to reopen traffic through Hormuz, said the United Kingdom would not be “drawn into the wider Iran war.”

One of the least oppositional voices, ironically, came from Denmark, the nation Trump was directly threatening just months ago but which is home to a large commercial shipping fleet. “We must face the world as it is, not as we want it to be,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters as he headed into a European Commission meeting to discuss a response to the Hormuz Strait situation.

Trump claimed Monday that “numerous” nations were going to send warships to the strait to help get tanker traffic moving through again but refused to say which ones.

He then continued a pattern of contradictory statements that call into question his understanding of his own war. He demanded help with his Iran war and its global consequences while simultaneously claiming he didn’t need any such help. He claimed he had “obliterated” all of Iran’s military, including its fleet of mine-laying boats, but then said he understood why ship owners still do not wish to send their vessels through.

“Every one of them is gone,” he said of the mine-laying boats, “but it only takes one.”

Trump also revealed yet more evidence that he had not fully appreciated the risks he was taking when he began the largest U.S. war in two decades. “They weren’t supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East,” he said of Iran’s decision to attack its neighbors that host U.S. military facilities. “So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked.”