{"id":367500,"date":"2026-04-07T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:55:08","slug":"trump-lashes-out-at-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367500\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lashes out at Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump lashed out at a number of countries \u2013 including Australia \u2013 today at a press conference as his deadline<\/a> for Iran to reach a deal approaches.<\/p>\n

The president continued to grumble about NATO allies\u2019 refusal to get involved in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and their hesitance to assist US offensive operations against Iran.<\/p>\n

As he wrapped up his lengthy news conference, he also fumed about the lack of support from Pacific allies.<\/p>\n

“NATO’s a paper tiger. NATO is us. And when we needed them, we didn’t need them, by the way.<\/p>\n

The US and Israel’s war with Iran has lasted for well over a month now. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

“We didn’t need them, obviously, because they haven’t helped at all, Just the opposite.They’ve actually gone out of their way not to help. They didn’t even want to give us landing strips. Think of it. And it’s not just NATO. <\/p>\n

“You know who else didn’t help us? South Korea didn’t help us. You know who else didn’t help us? Australia didn’t help us. You know who else didn’t help us? Japan.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “We\u2019ve got 50,000 soldiers in Japan to protect them from North Korea. We have 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect us from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well.”<\/p>\n

‘We will not be deploying troops’<\/p>\n

Australian Attorney-General Michelle Rowland would not be drawn on Trump’s singling out of Australia.<\/p>\n

“Australia has taken a position, which is that we are not going to be participating in any offensive way in this conflict,” she told reporters in Canberra.<\/p>\n

“We will not be deploying troops, but I will reiterate that the Australia-US alliance remains fundamental and we continue to call for a de-escalation of this conflict. <\/p>\n

“People in Australia and around the world are being impacted by events which they did not cause.”<\/p>\n

Trump says it would take four hours to destroy Iran\u2019s bridges and power plants<\/p>\n

Earlier in the press conference, Trump said it would take four hours to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants.<\/p>\n

The president described the consequences that Iran would face if it didn\u2019t reach a deal with the US by Trump\u2019s 8pm Tuesday (12pm Wednesday NZ time) deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o\u2019clock tomorrow night,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Power plants in Iran, he continued, would be \u201cburning, exploding and never to be used again\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump refused to say whether any civilian targets would be off limits in the US response.<\/p>\n

Trump dismisses that his threatened attacks on Iran\u2019s infrastructure would be war crimes<\/p>\n

Trump said he\u2019s \u201cnot at all\u201d concerned about committing war crimes as he continues to threaten the destruction of Iran\u2019s bridges and power plants if they don\u2019t meet the deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope I don\u2019t have to do it,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, Iran rejected a 45-day ceasefire proposal and said it wants a permanent end to the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won\u2019t be attacked again,\u201d Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Israel and the United States carried out a wave of attacks on Iran on Monday, killing more than 25 people. Iran responded with missile fire on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbors.<\/p>\n

– Additional reporting by AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump lashed out at a number of countries \u2013 including Australia \u2013 today at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,64,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-367500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-north-america","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-us-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}