David Remnick: NATO, The Liberal International Order Since WWII “Being Spat Upon” By Trump Administration
“The New Yorker” editor David Remnick, in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source,” said President Donald Trump’s contempt for the press and public makes him feel like he doesn’t have to explain his actions in Iran.
DAVID REMNICK, EDITOR, THE NEW YORKER: But also, just the insults directed toward the way of our NATO allies. And I think one of the consequences of what we’re seeing now is our relationship with NATO. The liberal international order, which has been held in place since the end of the Second World War, is also being spat upon by the Trump administration. So the consequences here, which are enormous in the Middle East, of course, spread out through the entire world, and the discussion that you see of it from the President of the United States and by the people around him is rarely serious and rarely believable. KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN HOST, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, and he was at length trashing the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. I mean, speaking of allies today, when he was talking about King Charles coming to visit next month, you know, he was saying he was so disappointed in Keir Starmer because there was hesitancy by the British leader to bring their forces into this war that they say they weren’t even asked about before it launched. REMNICK: Kaitlan, I can think of no reporter who witnesses this more consistently and more often and with more calm than you. I think you see it all the time that the President has a contempt for the truth when he feels like having it, contempt for the press, and contempt for the public, which is in the end the consumer of this information and wants so desperately to have some confidence in the President of the United States. And it’s a deeply depressing spectacle, and it’s an enormously dangerous mission that the President has launched, seemingly with very little analysis and very little willingness to share his thinking such as it is with the people of the United States. And that, I think, is going to cost him enormously politically, and I think he knows it. COLLINS: David Remnick, we’ll see what happens in these next 10 days. It’s great to have you and your expertise tonight, and also everyone should read your piece for all of it that you wrote tonight. So thank you for joining us.
