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Robert Tait in Washington

From menacing threats to comical misnomers: Donald Trump’s unlikely tale of love and darkness at Nato

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Donald Trump holds a press conference at the 36th Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Having arrived at Nato’s annual summit under a familiar cloud of resentment and grievance, Donald Trump’s farewell message on Wednesday was an unlikely tale of love and darkness.

Addressing journalists in the presence of his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president surprised everyone by directing his affections at an alliance he spent much of the previous day spewing bile over, citing the now well-worn gripe about Greenland, among others.

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