ANKARA
As they prepared for this week’s NATO summit in Ankara, the leaders of America’s allies wondered which Donald Trump would join them – the friendly U.S. president who has praised the dedication of NATO allies or the testy Trump who has threatened to implode the 77-year-old alliance? Upon arriving on Tuesday, the U.S. president lashed out at the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy for – in his telling – failing to support the U.S. war with Iran. On Wednesday morning, he said he would cut off all trade with Spain for obstructing the war effort and failing to spend enough on defense. By the end of the evening, Trump was praising those same leaders for ramping up their military spending, while describing a closed-door NATO leaders’ meeting as filled with love.