Biden calls Trump ’un-American and dangerous’ over support for a Russian strike on Nato allies

President Joe Biden on Tuesday (February 13) blasted comments about NATO by his likely 2024 election opponent Donald Trump, calling them “dangerous“ and “un-American“ and saying they raised the stakes for the U.S. Congress to approve new funding to support Ukraine. At the White House, the Democrat sharply rebuked Trump’s comment, made over the weekend, calling into question U.S. willingness to support members of the Western defense alliance if they were attacked. Biden said Trump’s comment made it more urgent that Congress pass his long-stalled funding request to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia. In remarks calling for Republican Speaker Mike Johnson to bring a Senate-passed $ billion military aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to a vote in the House of Representatives, Biden said of Trump’s comments: “For God’s sake, it’s dumb, it’s shameful, it’s dangerous, it’s un-American.“ Biden said fa