Trump suggests Spain should be 'thrown out' of NATO over defence expenditure disagreements

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Trump suggests Spain should be 'thrown out' of NATO over defence expenditure disagreements  The US president’s clash with Spain began in June ahead of the NATO summit, where just days before leaders convened in The Hague, Spain announced that it would not comply with Trump’s demands of raising defence spending to 5% of GDP.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/10/10/trump-suggests-spain-should-be-thrown-out-of-nato-over-defence-expenditure-disagreements  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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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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