Trump Celebrates NATO Members Agreeing To Spend 5% On Defense After 'Terrific Meeting'

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While meeting with EU President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland, President Trump spoke about NATO members agreeing to spend 5% of their GDP on defense.

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00:00deal. So we'll see what happens. Okay, how about one more, two more?

00:03Mr. President, Europe's now spending a lot more on defense, thanks to you.

00:06They are.

00:07Should they get a fairer deal on trade and exchange?

00:09Well, they're spending a lot on defense, but we're spending a lot more, you know, and we've

00:14been very generous to NATO for many, many years. And no, but we had a terrific meeting with NATO.

00:22I'd love to do as well. We had a meeting where they put up 5% instead of 2% and they're going

00:30to pay it instead of not paying because, as you know, many people didn't pay the 2% or

00:34anywhere near it. And the 2% was too low. And we're going to be sending now military equipment

00:41and other equipment to NATO and they'll be doing what they want. But I guess it's for

00:46the most part working with Ukraine. But we we had a fantastic meeting. I guess it's now

00:52almost four weeks ago. One of the best meetings they've ever had at NATO. And the spirit and

00:58the coming together was incredible. And I stood and I listened to almost 30 speeches. That

01:06was a lot. And I was really late and I had to leave, but I didn't want to leave before

01:11those last 10 spoke because they go home and they tell their wife, Trump left. And they

01:17were so nice to the United States. They were all mentioning the United States and me, but

01:21they were mentioning the United States to be here. It's such an honor, you know, etc. And

01:25I thought it would have been inappropriate. But I did stay. It was very hard because I

01:28was extremely late for something else that was pretty important. And we had a tremendous

01:35NATO meeting. I'm sure you heard that. It was great. There's some great people that you deal

01:42with on two fronts. Right. But you deal with on primarily the trade front. But I will tell

01:48you, they came together and the relationship is really good. That was a great interesting

01:54question because you probably have reported it that way. It really we came together and

02:02they went from 2 percent to 5 percent, which nobody would have thought that was even who would

02:06even think that because they didn't want to be a 2 percent. All of a sudden there are

02:105 percent. And that's that's the right number. And so it was it was a great honor. I got to

02:17know the heads of those countries really very well at that meeting almost a month ago.

02:22Okay. Thank you very much, everybody. We'll let you know what's happening.

02:25I will. I love doing back. I'll go. I said not in this trip, but I'll go soon. Okay. Thank you very much.

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