Murdoch Paper Editor Unleashes on Trump Over ‘Mad’ Plan
April 4, 2026
The Daily Beast
Alex Brandon / via REUTERSA top editor at the Wall Street Journal is publicly grilling President Donald Trump’s threat to blow up the NATO alliance if member countries are not at his beck and call regarding Iran. The paper’s editor-at-large, Gerard Baker, called Trump’s threats “shortsighted.” “We’re going to blow up the most successful alliance in global history, a coalition that continues to help preserve US leadership in the world, because some European states don’t want to join a war of choice that most Americans oppose?” he wrote on X.
“Mad. Mad. Mad.” Trump has frequently raged against the strategic alliance since first striking Iran on Feb. 28, growing furious with member countries that do not allow the U.S. to operate at will from bases inside ally countries, like Spain, which is not allowing U.S. Military planes to depart its borders to strike Iran. The Journal, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 95, has been highly critical of several of Trump’s initiatives in his second term, most notably his economic policy of sweeping tariffs.This is so shortsighted. We’re going to blow up the most successful alliance in global history, a coalition that continues to help preserve US leadership in the world, because some European states don’t want to join a war of choice that most Americans oppose? Mad. Mad. Mad. https://t.co/d7zAaNLuL3— Gerard Baker (@gerardtbaker) April 4, 2026Read more at The Daily Beast.
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