Trump inspires people by showing that you can be anything you want to be ... if you inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from Daddy and you're a ruthless c*nt.
NATO requires member countries to defend other member countries when they are attacked. When Trump insists that NATO members have an obligation to help the US prosecute its war against Iran, he is basically pretending that Iran attacked first. And I have zero doubt that his right-wing media apparatus will attempt to convince people that this is true.
Let the gaslighting begin!
In typical gangster fashion, Trump is now warning NATO of a "very bad future" if they don't do what he says.
What's this "bad future" going to look like? Will it be a future where America openly talks about annexing NATO allies? Because we're already in that future.
Trump is learning one of the perils of abusing your power in real-time: if you're already abusing it, then you can't threaten to abuse it. You can't bully people people by threatening to do something that you're already doing. What's the point of them doing what you want, if you'll probably do the bad thing anyway?