00:00U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Spain should be thrown out of NATO
00:05as he met with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb in the Oval Office on Thursday.
00:11The meeting, supposed to be the prelude to Finland's purchasing of U.S. icebreaker ships,
00:16steered into a discussion on the defense alliance.
00:19Trump had been feuding with Spain for several months
00:21ever since the Iberian nation announced that it would not comply with his demands
00:26of raising defense spending to 5% of GDP.
00:30As you know, I requested that they pay 5%, not 2%,
00:34and most people thought that was not going to happen,
00:37and it happened virtually unanimously.
00:40We had one laggard.
00:42It was Spain.
00:44Spain.
00:44They're doing fine.
00:46They have no excuse not to do this, but that's all right.
00:49Maybe you should throw them out of NATO, frankly.
00:51The meeting with Stubb also formally secured the sale of the fleet of 11 ships
00:56worth roughly 5.3 billion euros, the first to be delivered by 2028.
01:01What are you having done?
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