00:00When I talk about NATO, we're talking about tremendous amounts of money that we put in,
00:17and we're defending countries, and we're not getting reimbursed anywhere near the cost of
00:22doing it. Now, you know, that might have been okay 30 years ago when we were different,
00:27and it might have been okay 25 years ago, and 40 years ago, and it might have been,
00:32but you know what? It's not okay anymore, folks. We can't do it. We can't do it.
00:52Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much.
00:54It's great to be with you this afternoon.
00:58We will also work very closely with NATO on this new mission.
01:03I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism.
01:11Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.
01:19It's very good. Very, very good.
01:28We strongly support NATO.
01:30We only ask that all of the NATO members make their full and proper financial contributions
01:36to the NATO alliance, which many of them have not been doing.
01:41Many of them have not been even close.
01:44I mean, it is interesting.
02:39And today, I'm honored to welcome Secretary General Stoltenberg back to the White House
02:45as we prepare for the evening.
02:47This afternoon, I want to thank the seven NATO nations, in addition to the United States,
02:52who will meet their 2 percent NATO defense spending.
02:56Now, unfortunately, we pay much more than 2 percent, which is probably unfair and unfair
03:01to the taxpayers of the United States.
03:21So...
03:57Mesdames et Messieurs, veuillez diriger votre regard.
04:27Mesdames et Messieurs, veuillez diriger votre nom.
04:57Mesdames et Messieurs, veuillez diriger votre nom.
05:27And that's now changed.
05:29The commitment was at 2%.
05:30Ultimately, that'll be going up quite a bit higher than that.
05:33And I heard that President Macron said NATO is brain dead.
05:47And I think that's very insulting to a lot of different forces, including a man that does
05:52a very good job at running NATO.
05:54Now, it has a great purpose, especially with the fact that NATO is becoming much more flexible
06:01in terms of what it looks at.
06:03But I was very surprised.
06:05I'd like to ask you, what did you think he made a statement about NATO being brain dead?
06:09What did you think?
06:10Well, I, that's not the case.
06:12Because actually NATO is active, NATO is agile, NATO is adapting.
06:16So we appreciate it very much.
06:21We'll be talking about a lot of things, including NATO and including trade.
06:25We do a lot of trade with France.
06:27And we have a minor dispute.
06:28I think we'll probably be able to work it out.
06:30But we have a big trade relationship.
06:34And I'm sure that within a short period of time, things will be looking very rosy.
06:39We hope.
07:22I told you I think there.
07:25I'm trying to get all of you.
07:27It's not a classic right.
07:28I told you I was just good.
07:55Well, thank you very much.
07:59You've been very successful.
08:00I just want to thank you very much.
08:02We had some good talks already.
08:03Thank you very much.
08:10Well, he's too fast.
08:14Do you think that Germany is too naive?
08:16Yeah, honestly, he's a nice guy.
08:18I find him to be a very nice guy.
08:19But, you know, the truth is that I told him out of the fact that he's not paying 2%.
08:24And I guess he's not very happy about it.
08:33Well, I think NATO should have 5%.
08:36Well, you can't do it at 2%.
08:38I mean, at 2%, every country.
08:40If you're going to have a country in a regular military, you're at 4%.
08:43I think they should be, you know, they're in dangerous territory.
08:46I think they should be, they can all afford it.
08:48But they should be at 5%, not 2%.
08:50I'm the one that got them to pay 2%.
08:53The world here, a few days ago, he's going to be spending $200 billion on building.
09:00Are you not making any changes to NATO, where a NATO country gets attacked, but they're not paying enough dues, so the United States doesn't defend them?
09:09Well, I've said that to them.
09:12I said, if you're not going to pay, we're not going to defend.
09:14I said that seven years ago.
09:17And because of that, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars.
09:20I said, if you're not going to pay your bills, we're not going to defend you.
09:24Hello, everybody.
09:28It's great to be with a friend of mine who was prime minister of the Netherlands.
09:32I got to know him very well.
09:33We had a great relationship always.
09:35The dollars is being spent and really wasted so unnecessarily.
