President Trump speaks to members of the media on the White Home earlier than boarding Marine One on June 24.
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President Trump is planning to carry a information convention on the conclusion of the NATO summit within the Netherlands because the world watches to see whether or not a ceasefire between Israel and Iran will endure.
Trump traveled to the summit on Tuesday, the morning after saying the ceasefire, which got here days after the US joined Israel’s assaults on key Iranian nuclear amenities. Trump has claimed that the U.S. strikes destroyed Iran’s means to construct nuclear weapons, however an early labeled U.S. intelligence evaluation stated the bombs brought about solely restricted harm, setting Tehran’s nuclear program again “a number of months.”
The White Home has dismissed that evaluation, and Trump has bristled on the suggestion that the operation was something however profitable.
At NATO, allies have been engaged on a brand new dedication that will see international locations commit 5% of their gross home product to protection spending by 2035, up from 2%. Trump has lengthy referred to as for allies to spice up their spending, saying that the US was paying greater than its justifiable share. The U.S. contributes about 3.5% of its GDP to NATO.
However on his approach to the summit, Trump instructed reporters that the brand new objective did not apply to U.S. spending. “They’re in Europe. We’re not,” he stated. He additionally expressed some ambivalence to Article 5, the mutual protection clause within the NATO treaty that claims an assault on one member is taken into account an assault on all, including to long-held fears amongst European allies that Trump wouldn’t again them within the occasion of an assault.
