{"id":14793,"date":"2026-04-30T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/14793\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:01:07","slug":"trump-weighing-pulling-troops-from-italy-and-spain-over-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/14793\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump weighing pulling troops from Italy and Spain over Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4548339\/trump-i-dont-know-if-iran-war-will-end-before-ukraine\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> said Thursday that he\u2019s considering withdrawing American troops stationed in Italy and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/spain\" type=\"link\" id=\"washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/spain\">Spain<\/a> due to the countries\u2019 unwillingness to help with the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"100\">Iran<\/a> war.<\/p>\n<p>Trump previously announced that the administration is \u201cstudying\u201d a drawdown of U.S. forces in Germany, following a public spat with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The president has also frequently accused <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\" type=\"link\" id=\"washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\">NATO<\/a> members of failing to support American interests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, probably,\u201d he answered when asked in the Oval Office if he was considering expanding his drawdown to Italy and Spain. \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cItaly has not been of any help to us, and Spain has been horrible, absolutely horrible,\u201d the president continued. \u201cWhen we needed them, they were not there. We have to remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Merz has publicly backed Trump\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4545608\/trump-iran-state-of-collapse\/\">naval blockade<\/a> of the Strait of Hormuz, the German leader has also claimed that Iranian officials are making fools of Trump\u2019s hand-picked ceasefire negotiating team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,\u201d\u00a0the chancellor said earlier this week. \u201cAn entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4548825\/trump-us-troop-reduction-germany-merz-iran\/\">TRUMP WEIGHING US TROOP REDUCTION IN GERMANY AFTER MERZ\u2019S IRAN WAR CRITICISM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can watch Trump\u2019s comments in full below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Thursday that he\u2019s considering withdrawing American troops stationed in Italy and Spain due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194,865,31,866,204,305,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-14793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-italy","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-nato","14":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}