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Trump lashes out at Spain, says he is 'going to cut off all trade'

President Donald Trump said he wants to “cut off all trade with Spain” over NATO spending, adding “we don't want anything to do with Spain." His comments came during a meeting between him and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

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00:00In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain.
00:05Spain, first of all, it started when every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing.
00:13And everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany, everybody.
00:16And Spain didn't do it.
00:18And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases.
00:23And that's all right, we could use their bases if we want, we could just fly in and use it.
00:27Nobody's going to tell us not to use it.
00:30But we don't have to.
00:30But they were unfriendly.
00:33And so I told him, we don't want to, Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people.
00:39They have great people.
00:40But they don't have great leadership.
00:42And as you know, they were the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to 5%.
00:48I don't think they wouldn't agree to go up to anything.
00:51They wanted to keep it at 2%.
00:52And they don't pay the 2%.
00:55So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain.
00:57We don't want anything to do with Spain.
00:58Mr. President, what is the expectation for what's Germany like?
01:02By the way, I'm not happy with the UK.
01:05By the way, I'm not happy with the UK either.
01:09That island that you read about, the lease, okay, he made it for whatever reason, he made a lease of
01:15the island.
01:16Somebody came and took it away from him.
01:18And it's taken 3, 4 days for us to work out where we can land there.
01:24It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying...
01:31You
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