Trump Says US Won’t Help Iraq If Nouri Al-Maliki Returns to Power

Nouri al-Maliki was previously prime minister of the country between 2006 and 2014.

Then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during an interview in Baghdad, Iraq, on Dec. 3, 2011. Hadi Mizban/AP Photo

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iraq against returning former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to power, saying the United States would stop assisting the country if it did.

“I’m hearing that the Great Country of Iraq might make a very bad choice by reinstalling Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Minister,” Trump wrote in a Jan. 27 post on Truth Social. “Last time Maliki was in power, the Country descended into poverty and total chaos. That should not be allowed to happen again.”