Trump offers relief to NATO allies: 'We're with them all the way'
Source: LA Times
President Trump offered robust support for Europe and a rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the NATO Summit in The Hague on Wednesday, capping a visit that came as a relief to anxious allies across the continent.
The gathering was designed by NATO leadership to appease the president, and it delivered, with nearly all members of the transatlantic alliance agreeing to spend 5% of their gross domestic product on defense — a historic increase that had been a priority to Trump for several years.
“We’re with them all the way,” Trump said of NATO, sitting alongside its secretary general, Mark Rutte. He later added to reporters, “if I didn’t stand with it, why would I be here?”
Rutte was obsequious throughout the visit, at one point referring to Trump as "daddy" disciplining childlike nations at war with one another. But addressing reporters, he defended his praise of the president as well-earned.
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Pooty Poot must not have returned his calls
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