GOP Sen. Mike Lee wants US to leave the NATO military alliance.

[lindysalsagal]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/06/25/nato-summit-sen-mike-lee-wants-us/

“America’s withdrawal from NATO is long overdue,” Lee said in a statement Wednesday.

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By Baird | June 25, 2025, 5:26 p.m.| Updated: 5:38 p.m.

As President Donald Trump was departing from the NATO summit Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee introduced a new bill that would require the United States to withdraw from the post-WWII international military alliance.

The bill, which Lee named the “Not A Trusted Organization (NATO) Act,” would require the president to provide notice of the United States’ withdrawal from the treaty and prohibit the use of U.S. funds from going to NATO budgets.

“NATO has run its course — the threats that existed at its inception are no longer relevant 76 years later,” the statement read. “If they were, Europe would be paying their fair share instead of making American taxpayers pick up the check for decades. My legislation will put America first by withdrawing us from the raw deal NATO has become.”

Although Trump has had, at times, a contentious relationship with NATO, he reportedly assured fellow members at the summit that he supports the treaty and is not looking to withdraw from the alliance. “I stand with it. That’s why I’m here,” Trump said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. “If I didn’t stand with it, I wouldn’t be here.”

[creon]

1. idiot

Lee is an idiot

[OC375]

2. Read a Newspaper

Doesn't it seem shortsighted to leave NATO when we have "hot" flashpoints in Europe, Asia and the Middle East... sorta like when WWII was fought?

Also... NATO just did the 5% thing a day ago. Maybe chill and let then break out the checkbooks first? This immediate gratification thing has to go. It isn't helpful.

[Greybnk48]

3. Mike Lee needs to leave the Senate. He's unfit. n/t

[maxsolomon]

11. The Mormons in Utah would choose Lee over Jesus Christ

if he came back as a Democrat.

The Repuke Senate is filled with absolute clowns who will never lose in their blood red states.

[Swede]

4. Yeah, who needs allies, with all this peace on earth breaking out?

The more I hear of this nitwit, the more I think he should go back selling vacuum cleaners.

[Ocelot II]

6. What he's selling now sucks a lot harder than vacuum cleaners.

[Ocelot II]

5. I just want Mike Lee to leave.

Isn't he the d-bag who posted snide "humor" about the assassination of Melissa Hortman? He can go fuck himself sideways.

[jeffreyi]

7. Well one bright spot in this budget mess...

We now know who Mike Lee (R-thuggistan) looks and sounds like, and how odious he is.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. 'Not A Trusted Organization' Act

Sen. Mike Lee is doing some serious heavy lifting for Putin.

[Ping Tung]

9. Another idea: Not getting involved in unwinnable and unnecessary wars would save a lot of money and lives.

War does not determine who is right- only who is left. -Bertrand Russell

[Ocelot II]

10. A toon:

[spanone]

12. hey mike, trmp loves nato now...bet you do too, you sick sycophant.