--- title: Donald Trump Meets with NATO Secretary General: Watch Online description: President Donald Trump will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on Wednesday. canonical: https://time.com/4735939/donald-trump-nato-secretary-watch-live/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-12T17:52:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:21:28.529Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: President Trump Meets with NATO Secretary General og:description: President Donald Trump will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House og:url: https://time.com/4735939/donald-trump-nato-secretary-watch-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: President Trump Meets with NATO Secretary General twitter:description: President Donald Trump will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Live: President Trump Meets with NATO Secretary General by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 12, 2017 5:52 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 12, 2017 5:52 PM UTC President Donald Trump will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on Wednesday. During his campaign and since taking office, Trump has been [critical](http://time.com/4676097/donald-trump-nato-spending-germany-merkel/) of NATO, [calling the alliance “obsolete”](http://time.com/4635720/donald-trump-interview-nato-russia-sanctions-brexit/) and arguing that too many member states fail to meet the [requirement for defense spending](http://time.com/4680885/nato-defense-spending-budget-trump/). On Tuesday, Trump [approved](https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/04/11/us/politics/ap-us-trump-montenegro.html) the addition of Montenegro to NATO. Trump and Stoltenberg are scheduled to meet at 3 p.m. and hold a joint press conference at 4 p.m. They are expected to discuss the recent [chemical weapons attack](http://time.com/4735470/donald-trump-syria-war-bashar-al-assad/) in Syria as well as the Trump administration’s commitment to NATO. Watch live here. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4735939/donald-trump-nato-secretary-watch-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4735939/donald-trump-nato-secretary-watch-live/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Trump Meets with NATO Secretary General","datePublished":"2017-04-12T17:52:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:21:28.529Z","description":"President Donald Trump will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House","url":"https://time.com/4735939/donald-trump-nato-secretary-watch-live/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4735939/donald-trump-nato-secretary-watch-live/","name":"Watch Live: President Trump Meets with NATO Secretary General"}}]}] ```