00:01In a turn of events, US President Donald Trump hailed what he called a very successful summit.
00:07He also applauded NATO member states.
00:10It comes as just earlier in the day Trump lashed out over NATO's allies' failure to back his war in
00:15Iran.
00:16Trump also threatened to cut trade with Spain and insisted he still wants NATO member Denmark's territory of Greenland.
00:24Superstars, actually. But we want to thank you very much. We've had a tremendous time and I think a great
00:31success.
00:33And we just and it's a big it's a lot of speeches. We kept it short, but it's too bad.
00:40The press couldn't have seen what we what we were doing in that room because it was very smart people.
00:48And they have a lot of good in their heart, not evil. Good.
00:52Behind closed doors, however, Trump had reassured his counterparts he wanted the US to stay in the military alliance, according
00:59to a source inside the session.
01:02NATO Chief Mark Rutte insisted that despite the disagreements, the alliance was emerging stronger from the summit in Turkey,
01:08with allies unveiling tens of billions in new arms contracts.
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