{"id":51993,"date":"2026-07-08T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51993\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:16:07","slug":"trump-threatens-to-cut-off-trade-with-spain-at-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/51993\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to cut off trade with Spain at NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> excoriated Spain<\/a> for refusing to meet NATO\u2019s<\/a> requirement that member nations spend at least 5% of their gross domestic product on defense and threatened to break off all trade with the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpain is a wasted cause,\u201d Trump said on Wednesday during a press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to do any trade business with Spain anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCut off all trade with Spain, please, including visits,\u201d Trump also said. \u201cOK, we don\u2019t want anything to do. Watch them, watch them come running back, all they\u2019ll come running back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president blasted Spain as a \u201cterrible partner\u201d for rejecting the 5% GDP commitment negotiated during last year\u2019s NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands. Spain, however, resisted the increase from 2% of each nation\u2019s GDP during the summit last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have to trade with them,\u201d Trump said on Wednesday, the final day of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. \u201cI don\u2019t want to do any more trade with them, alright?<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly expressed that he was \u201cdisappointed with NATO\u201d for not meeting defense dues and the unwillingness of its members to help with Iran. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was among several European leaders who criticized the U.S. for launching the Iran war that began on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

TRUMP SIGNALS DISAPPOINTMENT WITH NATO WHILE TOUTING RELATIONSHIP WITH TURKEY<\/a><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump repeatedly claimed at NATO that the U.S. doesn\u2019t need Europe\u2019s help with the war. He also suggested that cutting off trade with Spain would cause it to bend.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s see how hostile they remain when they call up, and they say \u2018Please, please, we want to trade with you, sir\u2019,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump excoriated Spain for refusing to meet NATO\u2019s requirement that member nations spend at least 5%…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194,915,1192,305,17,5257],"class_list":["post-51993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-mark-rutte","tag-nato","tag-spain","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}