Trump Goes After Montenegro, a ‘Tiny Country’ With ‘Aggressive People’
Fresh off of meeting with Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president again questions NATO commitments.
by Krishnadev Calamur
Jul 18, 2018
3 minutes
President Donald Trump seems to have complicated feelings about Montenegro, the former Yugoslav republic whose admission into NATO he approved last year.
At Trump’s first summit in 2017, he shoved aside Montenegro’s prime minister, Duško Marković, during the so-called family photo that brings together the leaders of the alliance’s member states in order to get a more prominent position in the picture. Then, in an interview broadcast Tuesday on Fox News, Trump called Montenegro, a country with roughly the same population as Vermont (about 620,000 people) and about the same geographic size as Connecticut, “a tiny country”
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