Germans have lost trust in the US to help keep them safe, a German Member of the European Parliament told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Thursday, when asked about US President Donald Trump’s comments about potentially reducing US troop levels in the country.

“I would say that (Trump) is angry about a lot of things,” Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann said. “The problem is every morning we could read a new message … maybe tomorrow it’s a different message. So I think we really have to cool down.”

She stressed that the presence of US troops in Germany remains mutually beneficial. “US troops are important for us, but also important for the United States … as a hub … especially in Germany.”

Strack-Zimmermann acknowledged that Germany had not done enough on defense in past decades, but said that was now changing, with Europe working to take on greater responsibility and become “more independent.”

But when asked directly whether Germans still trust the US to help keep them safe, her answer was blunt: “The trust in this White House is not the same like under Biden, under Obama … under Clinton.”

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