Name: NATO Countries Rebuff Trump’s Plea to Help with Strait of Hormuz Amid Iran Oil Crisis: A Closer Look
Uploaded: 2026-03-17T21:31:50.000Z
Duration: 9 min 28 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Transition words & phrases

Donald Trump is now demanding that other countries help him take control of the Strait of Hormuz because of the oil crisis sparked by his war in Iran.

For more on this, it's time for a closer look.

Adverbs of degree

Trump has spent virtually his entire time in office attacking or alienating our closest allies.

Remember, it wasn't that long ago that he was threatening to go to war with Europe over Greenland.

Basically, their defense is two dog sleds.

You know what their defense, Two dog sleds.

You know what Denmark did recently to boost up security in Greenland?

Is this the Friars Club roast of Greenland?

Also, it doesn't make you sound tough to slam Greenland, an island with a small military.

You're like a wrestler bragging about what you're about to do to an 85 year old woman.

When you step in that ring with me, you're going to be in a world of pain because you got old knees.

But Trump reserved most of his venom for NATO, which he's repeatedly insulted and threatened to abandon.

We don't really need NATO in its current form.

We've been ripped off like no country has ever been ripped off.

I'm talking about NATO and how the United States is getting ripped off with an obsolete NATO.

The United States is treated very unfairly by NATO.

It helps them a hell of a lot more than it helps us.

We have NATO and we're giving countries a free ride.

If I were Trump's therapist, this is the part where I'd say, tell me more about NATO.

It's old, it's fat, it's sloppy, it's marriage.

Its father never loved, went bankrupt six times.

It tried to sell steaks in an electronics store.

So Trump repeatedly insulted America's closest allies, and especially NATO, which he said was obsolete.

And that's because Trump is actually a geopolitical mastermind.

He knew that we would never need NATO's help ever again.

And he would certainly never find himself in a position where he had to publicly beg Naito to intervene in a conflict he started.

And yes, I'm doing that thing where I'm being super sarcastic.

Before showing a clip package that proves the opposite.

As the wall with Iran stretches into its third week, President Trump now calling on world leaders to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

Trump telling the Financial Times, quote, if there's no response or if it's a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO.

You call them obsolete, sloppy, and fat, and now you want their help.

It's like breaking up with someone, then immediately asking them for help moving.

I know I called you obsolete and sloppy, but I didn't say you were bad at carrying things.

Okay, but let's hear the response from NATO.

I'm sure they put aside their hurt feelings and listened to the President's sensible request.

So far, no countries, including US Allies such as Germany and the United Kingdom, are agreeing to help.

So far, reactions to the President's request has been a resounding no.

Now, in fairness, it wasn't a no from every country in Germany, they said, our answer is five plus four.

And then the Germans just laughed and laughed and laughed.

They're German, but it's hard to tell when they're laughing, you know, because no sound comes out.

You mean to tell me your genius plan of repeatedly insulting them for 10 straight years and then begging them to help you out of a jam you got yourself into didn't work?

But again, this is just how Donald Trump does friendship.

And while you're there, can you give me a necro?

Now, NATO countries have made the very reasonable observation that this is not a war they started, it's not on or near their territory, and

it's not within the scope of their mission.

Trump then tried to insist that actually they're the ones who need the oil, while inadvertently revealing that maybe, maybe this entire debacle was completely unnecessary.

I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory.

It's the place from which they get their energy, and

they should come and they should help us protect it.

You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't even be there at all, because we don't need it.

It's a Shame no one made that case before we went.

I mean, there are so many cases to make here.

You can make the case that we shouldn't be there at all.

You can make the case that this was an unnecessary and an unprovoked war of choice.

You could make the case that this reckless and illegal war would destabilize the region.

You could make the case that Trump lied to his supporters by promising no new wars and then launched another disastrous open ended war.

I mean, at this point, you could probably make the case that this is going so badly because Trump mixed up the plans for war with Iran and war with Greenland.

They blocked the Strait of Hormuz, but they only have two dog sleds.

But if you're going to ask other countries to help the war we started, can you at least give them an idea of when that war might end?

When are you going to know when it's over?

I wouldn't trust your bones to feel anything, buddy.

Your jello bones are barely capable of keeping you upright for an entire speech.

You spend the entire State of the Union clutching the podium like Jack clutching that piece of wood at the end of the Titanic.

Are you caught in a riptide or something?