Trump tells German Chancellor to go f-ck himself.

First off, that loud mouthed Kraut is dead wrong. The US is strangling Iran and they will end up capitulating as they currently are losing $500 million / day in oil revenue, not to mention their storage facilities will be at capacity within days. Either they cut a deal to end "our" blockade or the shut their oil wells down...which destroys such. They are literally over a barrel.

As for German and it's NATO allies. They've foolishly been dependent on Russian oil for years as they pursued their ridiculous green energy dreams. Not they're reliant on the Middle East else they shut down. Talk about stupid. We hold all the cards.

They've turned there back on us and deserved to get kicked in the nuts....hard! Fight Putin and your own battles. Good riddance.

Trump Orders the Withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. Troops From Germany

The move comes after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized President Trump’s handling of the war in Iran

By Shelby Holliday, Michael R. Gordon and Vera Bergengruen, WSJ

May 1, 2026 5:48 pm ET

President Trump ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany amid a clash with Berlin over the Iran war.

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President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, escalating his clash with Berlin and NATO allies over their reluctance to support the war in Iran, officials said Friday.

The Pentagon has previously said that its longer-term goal is to have Europe take the lead on its own conventional defense and to gradually reduce the American military presence on the continent.

The announcement came just days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized Trump’s handling of the war in Iran, saying that Iran’s leadership was “humiliating” the U.S. and that he didn’t see a U.S. exit strategy.

With more than 36,000 troops in the country, Germany is the biggest U.S. military hub in Europe and has been used by the U.S. to project power in the Middle East. Bases in the country have served as key logistics hubs and fueling stops for Operation Epic Fury, as the U.S. military campaign against Iran is known.

“This decision follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in Europe,” said Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell. “We expect the withdrawal to be completed over the next six to twelve months.”

U.S. officials said the decision would result in the removal of an army brigade. It will also reverse a Biden administration decision to deploy a battalion with long-range conventional missiles to Germany later this year. That deployment had been announced by the U.S. and Germany at the 2024 NATO summit in Washington.

The cuts would bring U.S. troop levels in Europe back to where they were in 2022 before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The announcement follows on the heels of the Trump administration’s decision last year to remove an American combat brigade from Romania.

President Trump has also threatened to withdraw troops from Spain and Italy. He has complained that Spain isn’t spending enough on its military and has been angered by the country’s refusal to allow its bases to be used for the American military campaign against Iran.

Germany, in contrast to Spain, has been praised by U.S. officials for stepping up its military spending. German officials, who have sought to tamp down trans-Atlantic tensions with the U.S. following Merz’s initial comments, said that they didn’t expect major installations in Ramstein and Stuttgart to be affected by the U.S. troop cuts.

“We are prepared for it. We are discussing the matter closely and in a spirit of trust within all NATO bodies,” Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Thursday, adding that he expected the U.S. to make decisions “in a way that is appropriate among allies and partners.”

Germany hosts major U.S. infrastructure including Ramstein Air Base, U.S. European Command, and U.S. Africa Command headquarters, as well as Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest American military hospital outside the U.S. which has treated casualties from the conflict with Iran.

In 2020, the first Trump administration developed plans to take nearly 12,000 troops out of Germany, which the Pentagon framed as a strategic repositioning and Trump as a penalty for Germany being “delinquent” in its military spending. The following year, President Joe Biden halted the withdrawal, and Germany had boosted its military spending since then.

Despite the public trans-Atlantic tensions, Britain has allowed the U.S. to launch bomber missions against targets in Iran from its territory,

While U.S. officials said they were still working out details, they said that the larger aim wasn’t to reposition forces within Europe but to allocate them to the Western Hemisphere and the Indo-Pacific.