‘You pay FAR LESS than you should – this WILL change’ Trump’s extraordinary Merkel attack
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has hit out at Germany for having a “massive” trade deficit with the US and the amount it spends on NATO after Angela Merkel questioned the US’ reliability as an ally.
By ALIX CULBERTSON
Express.co.uk
Tue, May 30, 2017
Using his favourite form of communication, Mr Trump tweeted today: “We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military.
“Very bad for U.S. This will change.”
The billionaire leader did not clarify how that would change.
On Monday Chancellor Merkel underlined her doubts about the reliability of the United States as an ally.
She vented European frustrations with Donald Trump after back-to-back summits last week, but said she was a “convinced trans-Atlanticist”.
Speaking in a packed beer tent in Munich on Sunday, after a Group of Seven summit in Sicily and a NATO meeting in Brussels – both dominated by tensions with Mr Trump – Mrs Merkel spoke with surprising frankness.
She said: “The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent. I have experienced this in the last few days.
“We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands, of course in friendship with the United States, in friendship with Great Britain, with other neighbours wherever possible, also with Russia,” she continued.
“But we must know that we need to fight for our future ourselves, as Europeans, for our destiny.
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