[tcrlaf]

The back-pedaling begins.... He does not want to admit to the lunatic left that he folded to Trump. now, who did not see this coming?

[butlerweave]

and Wishy Washy Transgender Trudeua is still Wishy Washy and Transgender

[bigbob]

Screw ‘em. If they’re supposed to be paying 5% and they’re paying 2%, reduce our forces in Europe by 60% and tell them we’ll think about bringing them back when the numbers match.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Blood sucking parasites.

[eclectic]

He is just angling for a Trudeau treatment.

[dan on the right]

Trump said our “allies” agreed.

Doesn’t always include France.

Resolved.

[McGruff]

Next time Germany invades France they can have it. The European Union is effectively the German Union already.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

Our problems are here, not in Europe. We should leave NATO.

[SeekAndFind]

This guy is just as reliable as Kim Jong Un.

[Myrddin]

The 2% commitment is "by 2024". It isn't committed for the current year. They will do nothing until 2024, then fail to live up to the agreement anyway.

[daler]

This is mediaite...

[allendale]

Macron,May and Merkel just don’t get it. Trump is not operating in a political vacuum. There no longer exists in the United States a general consensus that America should be ready to sacrifice blood and treasure on behalf of Western Europe. Their unwillingness to defend their own borders and indifference to preserving their cultural heritage has not been lost on Americans. They and the US,truth be told and despite the globalists, would actually be better off without NATO. Its time has passed.

[HighSierra5]

His old lady is making him tell lies.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Art Of The Deal should include getting it in writing.

[Senator Goldwater]

Euro leaders “agreement”, let alone assent, is not required by Trump. He told them what it will be, and so it shall be.

[blueplum]

Macron lives in a palace; it’s gone to his head.

[sipow]

Macron needs to shut up and fall in line.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I thought France resigned from NATO when Degaul was president.

[2CAVTrooper]

France is not IIRC a “formal” member of NATO, so Macron is talking out of his backside.

[zencycler]

Trump said there was a commitment at 2%
Macron said there was a commitment at 2%

So far, they are saying the same thing.

Then, after the 2% commitment comment, Trump added that “ultimately it would be going up higher”. As this comment follows his remark that there was a commitment at 2%, the only inference can then be that he’s saying there is no commitment for it to go higher, but it is his belief that it will.

Macron says there is only a commitment for 2% and nothing beyond that. This in no way contradicts anything that Trump said, as Trump never said there was any COMMITMENT to go beyond 2%. The only difference is that Macron has not made any comment on Trump’s belief that at some future point the other NATO countries will start contributing more than 2%.

#FakeNews strikes again.

[donna]

Agreed to Increase Spending Beyond Goals

President Trump never said it was "beyond goals".