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## Video: 'NATO Is Much Stronger Now': Trump Claims Victory After Contentious Summit

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_Published 2018-07-12. As a contentious North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels began to wind down on Thursday, President Donald Trump claimed victory over defense spending and reaffirmed U.S. commitment to the alliance._


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## Transcript

Thank you very much everybody. I've appreciated. We've had a very amazing today period in Brussels and we really accomplished a lot with respect to NATO. For years president have been coming to these meetings and talked about the expense the tremendous expense to the United States and Tremendous progress has been made, everyone's agreed to substantially up their commitment. They're going to up it at levels that they've never thought of before and the United States commitment to NATO is very strong, remains very strong, but primarily because everyone, the spirit they have The amount of money they're willing to spend.

The additional money that they will be putting up has been really amazing to see it. To see the level of spirit in that room is incredible. And I hope that we're going to be able to get along with Russia. I think that we probably will be able to. The people in the room think so, but they nevertheless, they really stepped up their commitment. Can you tell us whether or not you've warned people that the US would pull out of NATO if they weren't meeting their spending goals? I told people that I'd be very unhappy if they didn't up their commitments very substantially because the United States has Been paying a tremendous amount, probably 90 % of the costs of NATO.

And now people are going to start, and countries are going to start upping their commitments. So I let them know yesterday actually, I was surprised that you didn't pick it up, it took until today. But yesterday, I let them know that I was extremely unhappy With what was happening. And then today and yesterday I was probably a little bit more firm. But I believe in NATO, I think NATO's a very important, probably the greatest ever done, but the United States was paying for, Anywhere from 70 to 90 % of it depending on the way you calculate, that's not fair to the United States. There are critics that say by creating this scene here at NATO, you're only enabling President Putin in Russia to further disturb things in Ukraine and Georgia.

Well, if you consider putting up tremendously You know the additional funds at a level nobody's ever seen before. I don't think that's helping Russia. Are you still threatening to potentially pull the United States out of NATO for any reason and do you believe you can do that without Congress' explicit support and approval? I think I probably can, but that's unnecessary. And the people have stepped up today like they've never stepped up before. And remember, the word $ 33 billion more they're paying. And you'll hear that from the Secretary General in a little while. He thanked me actually. He actually thanked me.

And everybody in the room Thank me. There is a great [ INAUDIBLE ] spirit in that room that I don't think they've had in many years. They're very strong. So yeah, very unified, very strong, no problem, right? We're in NATO, no no, okay. No problem.

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