What did Donald Trump claim about foreign policy on 12 Jul 2018?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
Prior to last year, where I attended my first meeting, it was going down—the amount of money being spent by countries was going down and down very substantially.
It wasn't going down. NATO Europe and Canada raised defense spending in real terms in 2015 and 2016, before his first NATO meeting in May 2017.
NATO's figures show defence expenditure of NATO Europe and Canada changing in real terms by +1.84% in 2015 and +3.08% in 2016, and NATO Europe alone by +0.55% and +3.54% (NATO, Defence Expenditure of NATO Countries 2010-2017, press release PR/CP(2018)016, March 15, 2018, Graph 1 and Table 3).
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- News conference at NATO headquarters, Brussels, Belgium.
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