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Donald Trump: “When I first went to NATO, my first meeting, I noticed that…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Trump holds meeting with NATO leader Mark Rutte

Published | Video Starts at 04:05

I love to host you there in the summer and work together to make sure that that will be a splash, a real success, projecting American power on the world stage. What Mark is saying is When I first went to NATO, my first meeting, I noticed that very few people were pay[ing] and if they were, they weren't paying their fair share. There were only seven countries that were paying what they were supposed to be paying, which was, yeah, it's even worse, could be even worse. (04:05–04:13)

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Asserts that few NATO countries were paying their fair share when he first attended a NATO meeting.

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