Trump Hails UK Troops’ Sacrifice After Backlash Over NATO Remark

Donald Trump lauded the UK’s military after Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the US president to apologize for downplaying the role of NATO troops in the war in Afghanistan.

The president in a Saturday social media post stopped short of making a full apology, but said that British forces are “second to none” and that their “GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers” will “always be with the United States of America.”

But one of Trump’s closer allies in Europe, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, issued a strong statement later Saturday saying Trump’s remarks “astonished” the government in Rome.

“Statements that ...