{"id":54760,"date":"2026-04-06T20:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54760\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:49:12","slug":"trump-lashes-out-at-pacific-allies-for-not-assisting-in-iran-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/54760\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lashes out at Pacific allies for not assisting in Iran fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(AP) &#8211; President Donald Trump continued to grumble about NATO allies\u2019 refusal to get involved in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and their hesitance to assist U.S. offensive operations against Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As Trump wrapped up his lengthy news conference Monday, he also fumed about the lack of support from Pacific allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYou know who else didn\u2019t help us? South Korea didn\u2019t help us,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know who else didn\u2019t help us? Australia didn\u2019t help us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO: President Donald Trump says Iran could be &#8220;taken out in one night&#8221; and that night could be &#8220;tomorrow.&#8221; (Source: Pool via CNN Newsource)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYou know who else didn\u2019t help us? Japan. We\u2019ve got 50,000 soldiers in Japan to protect them from North Korea. We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well,\u201d Trump continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AP) &#8211; President Donald Trump continued to grumble about NATO allies\u2019 refusal to get involved in reopening the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[11675,34,21700,1372,392,36],"class_list":["post-54760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-allies","tag-iran","tag-pacific","tag-president","tag-trump","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116359735630701966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}