{"id":72902,"date":"2026-05-01T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/trump-threatens-to-withdraw-troops-from-italy-and-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:00:14","slug":"trump-threatens-to-withdraw-troops-from-italy-and-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/trump-threatens-to-withdraw-troops-from-italy-and-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to withdraw troops from Italy and Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says European countries are \u2018absolutely horrible\u2019 to refuse to support operations in strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/may\/01\/donald-trump-us-troops-italy-spain-germany-nato-europe-latest-news\"> Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw US troops from Italy and Spain a day after saying he was looking at reducing the number deployed in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The US president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/30\/trump-threatens-to-reduce-troop-numbers-in-germany-amid-growing-row-with-nato-allies\">threat to Germany<\/a> came after the country\u2019s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said America was being \u201chumiliated\u201d by Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/01\/trump-threatens-withdraw-troops-italy-spain-strait-hormuz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says European countries are \u2018absolutely horrible\u2019 to refuse to support operations in strait of Hormuz Europe live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw US troops from Italy and Spain a day after saying he was looking at reducing the number deployed in Germany. The US president\u2019s threat to Germany came &#8230; <a title=\"Trump threatens to withdraw troops from Italy and Spain\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/trump-threatens-to-withdraw-troops-from-italy-and-spain\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump threatens to withdraw troops from Italy and Spain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}