Donald Trump Says Nato Allies Have Agreed To Increase Defence Spending metro.co.uk

Donald Trump has said his Nato allies have agreed to increase their defence spending after he threatened to pull out at the summit in Brussels. Nato is holding an emergency session after the president made demands for higher spending.

At a press conference yesterday, the US President said he told leaders he would be ‘very unhappy’ if they didn’t ‘up their commitments very substantially’.He then added that ‘tremendous’ progress had been made. Trump said the US ‘commitment to Nato remains very strong’.

We made a tremendous amount of progress today,’ he told reporters. ‘Yesterday, I let them know I was extremely unhappy with what was happening and they have substantially upped their commitment.’ Nato was now ‘much stronger than it was two days ago’, he said.

‘I believe in Nato.’Trump insisted Nato leaders were now ‘putting up a lot’ and it was ‘unnecessary’ to pull the US out of the organisation.