The president of the United States, he has criticized on Monday again to the “Moorish countries” that he considers that they do not contribute what they owe in military spending according to the agreements reached within NATO and stressed that since their arrival they have contributed millions.
“Do not forget that the European Union was created for that. The European Union was created to harm the United States in commerce. And they put us in NATO because they do not pay the account,” Trump said during a meeting with the press in the Oval Office of the White House in which the Salvadoran President was also Nayib Bukele.
“But now, since I have involved, they have already paid the account. I have achieved more than 600,000 million dollars for NATO (…). Eight of the 28 countries paid. The rest were delinquent and told them: ‘If you do not pay we are going to stop protsergumbrers’ and the money arrived, more than 600,000 million,” he said.
“They hurt us in that and in commerce, the European Union, and they have had to sit at the table” negotiating, said the US president, who has reproached that “our food products do not buy us, our cars do not buy us.” “We have millions of his cars, BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz and many others. They reach millions, (but) there is no Chevrolet in Munich,” he said.
Trump recalled that he told the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel when he visited the capital of Bavara. “I told Merkel when I was there and while I was leaving millions of people infiltrating Germany. We would call them illegal immigrants, but she legalized them,” he argued.
“I was doing very well with her. I asked her how many Chevrolet were in Munich or Frankfurt.
As for tariffs, Trump has stressed that the United States does not want to “harm anyone” and that is why he has “helped” the American company Apple. “I am a very flexible person. No change of mind, but I am flexible,” he argued.
This Monday is in Washington the Commissioner of Commerce of the European Union, Maros Sefcovic, to try to advance a solution that ends the tariff climbing launched by Trump and coinciding with the EU’s decision to freeze his reprisals to “give a chance to the negotiation.”
The commissioner, who speaks on behalf of the 27 in commercial matters for being the tariff policy an exclusive competence of the EU, plans to meet with the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and with the commercial manager, Jamieson L. GREE, with whom he maintains a periodic telephone contact.