Krauthammer was not a fan of Trump’s NATO speech today – to say the least – and ripped it apart today on Martha MacCallum’s show as she tried earnestly to defend it.

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Krauthammer says the biggest news from Trump’s speech is what he didn’t say. At a ceremony where they are remembering the dead and wounded from the Manchester terrorist attack, Trump not only lectured NATO members about ponying up to pay their fair share but refused to say “we will honor Article 5”, which means that when one is attacked they are all attacked. Krauthammer called this omission incomprensible.

He also pushed back at the notion that it’s a good thing for Trump to lecture members about paying their fair share. Krauthammer says the amount that we’re talking about is only about 100 billion, which is relatively trivial amount, and says it won’t make a dime’s worth of difference if there is any invasion.

Further he pointed out that Trump overlooks the fact that NATO nations are represented in Afghanistan and that many of them have a “higher per capita loss of their soldiers” than the United States. He says “so the idea that they haven’t lifted a finger to fight terrorism is simply wrong”.

There’s more and you can watch it in the above video.