President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened trade penalties, including tariffs, against Spain, saying he is unhappy with its refusal to raise defense spending to 5% and calling the move disrespectful to NATO.
00:00President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is very unhappy with Spain for refusing to raise its defense spending to 5%, calling the move disrespectful to NATO.
00:10Trump also threatened possible trade punishments, including tariffs, in retaliation.
00:18I'm very unhappy with Spain. They're the only country that didn't raise up their number to 5%.
00:24Every other country in NATO raised up to 5%. And Spain is doing very well off our backs.
00:33So I'm not happy with Spain. Spain gets protection, and they know, you know, look, they're sort of in the semi-middle of it,
00:40so they're going to get protected automatically, even if you don't want to protect them, you're protecting them because of the way they're located.
00:47And I think what Spain did is a very bad thing for NATO. I think it's very unfair to NATO.
00:54It wouldn't matter if you said you're not going to protect them because they're pretty much protected.
00:58You know, what are you going to do? Go through the other countries and let's go attack Spain, right?
01:02So I think what they did is not nice.
01:07I think it's very disrespectful to NATO.
01:09In fact, I was thinking about giving them trade punishment through tariffs because of what they did.
01:16And I may do that.
01:19I think unbelievably disrespectful, Spain, the only one out of all the countries in NATO, the only one that said that is Spain.
01:28And I think that's, I think they should be punished for that.
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