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President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office at the White House, March 3, in Washington. Associated Press<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence there as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz<\/a> over the U.S-Israel war against Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump made the threat after Merz earlier this week said<\/a> that the U.S. was being \u201chumiliated\u201d by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington\u2019s lack of strategy in the war. Trump has also repeatedly railed against NATO<\/a> for the alliance’s refusal to assist the U.S. in its two-month-old war.<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time,\u201d Trump said in a social media post.<\/p>\n Merz had said earlier Wednesday that his personal relationship with Trump remained \u201cas good as ever,\u201d but he had \u201chad doubts from the very beginning about what was started there with the war in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n During his first term in the White House, Trump also moved to cut U.S. troops<\/a> in Germany because he said the country spent too little on defense.<\/p>\n In June 2020, Trump announced he was going to pull out about 9,500 of the roughly 34,500 U.S. troops who were then stationed in Germany, but the process never actually started. Democratic President Joe Biden formally stopped the planned withdrawal<\/a> soon after taking office in 2021.<\/p>\n The U.S. has several major military facilities in the country, including the headquarters for U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command, Ramstein Air Base and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest American hospital outside the United States.<\/p>\n