NATO Secretary-General Compares 'Trump 45' To 'Trump 47' In Conversation With President Trump

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In their meeting yesterday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte discussed the difference between the impact of President Trump in both his presidencies.

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00:00Mark would you like to say something? Yeah, first of all, thank you so much. Mr. President. They're not again for hosting me and

00:07But also for taking time in Florida a couple of weeks after you were reelected

00:12And of course our phone call a couple of weeks ago, and I must say

00:17trim 45 you

00:20basically

00:22You originated the fact that in your you know spending when you take it to aggregate

00:27700 billion more on defense than when you came in office in 2016 2017

00:32But that was trim 45, but then when you look at trim 47

00:36What happened the last couple of weeks is really staggering the Europeans committing to a package of 800 billion defense spending

00:44the Germans now

00:46Potentially up to half a trillion extra in defense spending and then of course you had

00:50Here start me here the British Prime Minister and others all committing to a much higher defense spending

00:56We need to do more

00:57But I really want to work together with you in a run-up to the DH summit to make sure that we will have a NATO

01:03Which is really reinvigorated under your leadership, and we are getting there and we also discuss

01:10Defense production and because we need to produce more weaponry. We are not doing enough and not in the US not in Europe

01:17And we are lacking behind when you compare to the Russians in the Chinese and you have a huge defensive industrial base

01:24Europeans buying four times more here

01:27Than the other the other way around which is good because you have a strong defense industry

01:31But we need to do more there to make sure that we are hand-potting the production and kill the red tape

01:36So I would love to work with you on that

01:39And finally Ukraine you broke the deadlock as you said all the killing the young people dying

01:46cities getting destroyed the fact that you did that you started the dialogue with the Russians and the successful talks in Saudi Arabia now with

01:53Ukrainians, I really want to commend you for this. So well, the Hague is my hometown

01:58I love to host you there in the summer and work together to make sure that that will be a splash a real success

02:04projecting American power on the world stage

02:08What mark is saying is when I first went to NATO my first meeting

02:12I noticed that very few people were paying and if they were they weren't paying their fair share. There were only seven

02:19Countries that were paying what they were supposed to be paid, which was yeah

02:23could be if it was but

02:26there were just very few countries that were paying and

02:29Even the pain it was a 2% which is too low. It should be higher. It should be quite a bit higher, but

02:36Yet Poland and I remember Poland was actually paying a little bit more than there was supposed to which was very impressed with

02:43and they they've been actually terrific and some of the others but most of them weren't paying or they were paying very little and

02:50I didn't think it was appropriate to bring it up there

02:53But I said it's going to be brought up at my next meeting and my next meeting

02:56You know the first meeting I want to give a little break the second meeting it began and I was able to raise

03:02Hundreds of billions of dollars. I just said we're not going to be involved with you if you're not going to pay and

03:07the money started pouring in and NATO became much stronger because of my actions and working along with a lot of people including mark, but

03:16They would not pay for other

03:18Presidents and I don't think other presidents even knew that they weren't paid

03:23I asked first question has everybody paid up and

03:26Literally, I mean they showed they told me seven you could be right

03:29It could be three but that makes it even worse, but they just weren't paying and I said no

03:34I won't protect if you're not paying if you're delinquent or if the money isn't paid

03:39Why would we do that?

03:41And as soon as I said that you get a little hit from the press because they said oh gee, that's not very nice

03:47but if you said the other nobody would have paid and

03:50The money started coming in by the billions and you know hundreds of billions of dollars

03:55Float into NATO and NATO became strong. Yeah, and you remember that your predecessor who I thought was a very good man

04:02Stoltenberg he sends his

04:04terrific Stoltenberg Secretary General and he made the statement that when

04:09Trump came in the money started coming in like we never saw before hundreds of a actually

04:14Probably close to six hundred billion dollars came in and

04:18NATO became strong from that standpoint and now we have to use it wisely and we have to get this war over with

04:25You'll be back to a normal much more normal life and

NATO Secretary-General Compares 'Trump 45' To 'Trump 47' In Conversation With President Trump

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