Marine Le Pen blasts Donald Trump for his Nato U-turn

show ad

His first taste of freedom: Heart-warming moment an abused orangutan kept in a tiny wooden crate for two years is released
Bill Clinton's infamous tarmac meeting with Loretta Lynch was 'the capper' says FBI boss Comey - who testified the confab made him decide to announce the decision not to prosecute Hillary HIMSELF
New York's first president since FDR won't even get a Bronx cheer: City snubs Trump's first return to his native soil
'It takes a lot of work to lose to Donald Trump': David Axelrod turns on Hillary Clinton's claim it was the FBI, the Russians and misogyny that cost her the election
Comey confirms the FBI is looking into whether anyone leaked information about the Hillary email investigation to Rudy Giuliani
It's a wall not a fence! White House rebrands see through fence a 'Bollard wall' as it claims the president is building the wall he said he would
Iran 'conducts failed missile test from same submarine used by North Korea' just days after near-incident with US warship in Strait of Hormuz
Pictured: Mother-of-three, 36, among at least three killed and nine injured when an elderly auction employee 'accelerated his Jeep Cherokee through a crowd of people at a Massachusetts auto sale'
Beware of invites to Google docs: Experts warn phishing attack 'spreading like crazy'
Whatsapp goes down worldwide leaving millions of users unable to share messages
Gunman kills himself after shooting dead woman in 'murder-suicide' at Dallas-area community college as students flee the violence
Three illegal immigrant MS-13 gang members arrested for attempted murder in Long Island machete attack
Obama's sex secrets laid bare: How he considered a gay fling, had passionate sex and COCAINE with one white girl, proposed twice to another - and CHEATED on Michelle before they married
President Obama considered pursuing a homosexual relationship when he was in college after meeting an openly GAY professor with whom he shared a friendship 'beyond the classroom'
REVEALED: Barack Obama two-timed Michelle Obama with a white girlfriend he had 'desperately proposed to TWICE'
Barack Obama gives first look at plans for the Presidential Center he plans to build with Michelle in Chicago to 'give back' and train the next generation of young leaders
'I've never felt so stupid in my life': Chris Rock told Michelle Obama she could join The View or Housewives of Atlanta after leaving the White House in awkward chat at Obama's farewell bash
Fox News host Sean Hannity 'tells staff he is staying put' after speculation was rife he was on his way out due to ousting of his good friend Bill Shine
'I would not wish this on my worst enemies!' YouTubers try to survive on the Victoria's Secret Angels' strict pre-show diet - and are left in total MISERY
America's forgotten heroes: 100 years ago, the U.S. finally agreed to send soldiers to join the Allies in the trenches and help turn the course of WWI. So why, asks a top historian, is their awesome bravery barely remembered today?
Suspects who 'murdered former US marine and his Canadian girlfriend in Belize and after tying them up with duct tape' are arrested
Special education teacher who pleaded guilty to sleeping with her 14-year-old student blames daily heroin habit for her behavior
EXCLUSIVE: He created Batman, Robin and Bruce Wayne - but was treated like the Joker. Documentary reveals how superhero's true co-creator was kept secret until years after his death
'I bet you wish you were dead': People with extreme facial differences share their brutally honest experiences of the staggering reactions they receive from strangers

During the US presidential election campaign Trump called Nato 'obsolete'
This week the US leader claimed the military alliance was 'no longer obsolete'
Front National leader Marine Le Pen has criticised Trump following the volte-face
Le Pen said: 'He is in contradiction with the commitments he had made'

By Rod Ardehali For Mailonline

Published: 15:43 EDT, 15 April 2017 | Updated: 21:01 EDT, 15 April 2017

e-mail

347

View
comments

Donald Trump has come under fire from far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for his volte-face on Nato.

The Front National leader Le Pen criticised the US president for what she perceived as hypocrisy following his sudden embrace of the military alliance.

In an interview with France Info radio, Le Pen said: 'Undeniably he is in contradiction with the commitments he had made.

Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen criticised President Donald Trump Friday for his sudden embrace of Nato. Trump claimed Nato was 'no longer obsolete.'

'I am coherent, I don't change my mind in a few days. He had said he would not be the policeman of the world, that he would be the president of the United States and would not be the policeman of the world, but it seems today that he has changed his mind.'

The attack comes shortly after Trump hosted Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg at the White House declaring that, counter to his views expressed during his election campaign, the alliance was 'no longer obsolete.'

Le Pen added that she would stick to her France first approach, despite Trump's apparent fluctuation from his original policy.

She continued: 'Will he persist, or is it a political coup which facilitates his domestic policy, I have absolutely no idea. But I am coherent in my analyses. When something favors France I say so, when it doesn't I say so too.'

In the run up to the US election in 2016, Trump and Le Pen were seen as natural allies.

Both share similarly nationalistic policies on immigration and globalisation.

The French politician had even said that Trump's presidential win 'shows that people are taking their future back,' according to CNN.

The criticisms come amid other nationalist politicians taking umbrage at Trump's changed approach.

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage said he was 'very surprised' at Trump's decision to strike a Syrian airbase - in retaliation for the regime's alleged chemical weapons attack against civilians.

A fundamental pillar of Le Pen's campaign has been her staunch adversary toward Nato.

She remains on track to make it through to the run-off election on May 7 although has seen her momentum slowed.

'I consider that France does not have to submit to the calendar of the United States, so I want France to leave the integrated command of NATO,' she said.