MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace sharply criticized former President Donald Trump's remarks at a recent NATO summit, characterizing his statements as ranging from "uninformed to downright addled and crazy."
During her program "Deadline: White House," Wallace reviewed a compilation of Trump's most notable comments from the summit. These included claims that the Iran peace deal was over, calling Iran's leadership "scum," referencing an "Islamic Republic of Japan," criticizing NATO ally Spain, expressing admiration for "Tik Tak," and mistakenly identifying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Wallace expressed disbelief at some of the remarks, noting, "He’s not sitting next to President Putin, I don’t know what Tik Tak is, the Islamic Republic of Japan came out of his mouth."
She suggested that Secretary of State Marco Rubio might need to "start standing next to him and translating." Wallace concluded that Trump's "incomprehensible, unhinged, embarrassing, uninformed, ‘me, me, me’ display" in his approach to geopolitics appeared to have "exasperated and exhausted European leaders’ patience."