Trump warns he may cut US troop presence in Germany after Iran feud

President Trump on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the US military presence there as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the US-Israel war against Iran.Trump made the threat after Merz earlier this week said that the US was being “humiliated” by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington’s lack of strategy in the war.Trump has also repeatedly railed against NATO for the alliance’s refusal to assist the US in its two-month-old war.“The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time,” Trump said in a social media post.Follow The Post’s live coverage of President Trump and national politics for the latest news and analysisMerz had said earlier Wednesday that his personal relationship with Trump remained “as good as ever,” but he had “had doubts from the very beginning about what was started there with the war in Iran.”During his first term in the White House, Trump also moved to cut US troops in Germany because he said the country spent too little on defense.In June 2020, Trump announced he was going to pull out about 9,500 of the roughly 34,500 US troops who were then stationed in Germany, but the process never actually started.Democratic President Joe Biden formally stopped the planned withdrawal soon after taking office in 2021.The US has several major military facilities in the country, including the headquarters for US European Command and US Africa Command, Ramstein Air Base and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the largest American hospital outside the United States.Merz met with Trump at the White House in March, just days after the US and Israel began their bombardment of Iran.At the time, Merz told Trump that Germany was eager to work with the US on a strategy for when the current Iranian government no longer exists.Merz also expressed...