00:00Are you making any changes to NATO where a NATO country gets attacked but they're not
00:07paying enough dues so the United States doesn't defend them?
00:11Well I've said that to them.
00:12I said if you're not going to pay, we're not going to defend.
00:14I said that seven years ago and because of that they paid hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:20I said if you're not going to pay your bills, we're not going to defend you.
00:25And it also went for the attack.
00:27And if they got attacked, they said well does that mean you won't defend us?
00:30I said are you current or are you delinquent?
00:34They said if we were delinquent, would you?
00:36I said nope, I would not.
00:38And because of that, as you know, hundreds of billions of dollars came into NATO.
00:42You wouldn't have NATO right now if I weren't there.
00:45And your previous Secretary General has said that.
00:50He said he's never seen anything like it.
00:52When I came to NATO, when I first had my first meeting, I noticed that people weren't
00:57paying their bills at all.
00:59And I said I should wait until my second meeting and I did.
01:02And I brought that up and I said if you don't pay your bills, we're not going to participate,
01:06we're not going to protect you.
01:08And when I said that, as soon as I said that, it was amazing how the money came in.
01:13The money came in and now they have money.
01:16But even now it's not enough.
01:18It's really not enough.
01:19They should be paying more.
01:20On Peter's question, are you going to make that policy, U.S. policy, that the U.S. wouldn't
01:23defend NATO countries that don't pay?
01:25I think it's common sense, right?
01:27If they don't pay, I'm not going to defend them.
01:29No, I'm not going to defend them.
01:30I got into a lot of heat when I said that.
01:33You said, oh, he's violating NATO.
01:36And you know, the biggest problem I have with NATO, I really, you know, I mean, I know the
01:39guys very well.
01:40They're friends of mine.
01:42But if the United States was in trouble and we called them, we said we got a problem.
01:50France, we got a problem.
01:51A couple of others I won't mention.
01:53Do you think they're going to come and protect us?
01:57They're supposed to.
01:58I'm not so sure.
01:59Yeah, Peter.
02:00Also, why stay in NATO at all?
02:05I view NATO as potentially good, but you got to get, you got to get some good thinking
02:12in NATO.
02:13It's very unfair what's been happening.
02:14Until I came along, we were paying close to 100 percent of NATO.
02:19So think of it.
02:20We're paying 100 percent of their military and they're screwing us on trade.
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