US President Donald Trump says the United States does not “have to be there for NATO”, given the alliance declined to provide material support to the US during its ongoing war on Iran, Reuters reports.

“They just weren’t there,” he said at an investment forum in Miami. “We spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on NATO, hundreds, protecting them, and we would have always been there for them, but now, based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we?”