{"id":81843,"date":"2026-09-07T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81843\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:02:11","slug":"donald-trump-tells-gb-news-spain-will-be-a-ruined-country-amid-ceuta-migrant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/81843\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump tells GB News ‘Spain will be a RUINED country’ amid Ceuta migrant crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump has told GB News Spain will be a \u201cruined country\u201d amid the Ceuta migrant crisis.<\/p>\n

Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in north Africa, was flooded with over 70,000 illegal migrants from Morocco on 30 July.<\/p>\n

While many migrants returned to the African country, thousands remain with the rate of sexual assault now nearly one a day.<\/p>\n

Now, the President has weighed in on the ongoing crisis while also taking aim at Spain\u2019s defence spending.<\/p>\n

He told GB News: \u201cSpain will be a ruined country, and I\u2019ve had my own problems with Spain because Spain doesn\u2019t behave very well with respect to Nato.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t pay what they should be paying. It\u2019s very sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the 2025 Nato Summit in The Hague, the alliance\u2019s 32 members agreed to spend 5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035, with 3.5 per cent on \u201ccore defence\u201d and 1.5 per cent on security-related spending.<\/p>\n

Spain fiercely opposed the Mr Trump-set target \u2013 Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez said the spending target would \u201cnot only be unreasonable but also counterproductive\u201d.<\/p>\n

The country currently meets the current Nato target of 2 per cent, but has resisted the 5 per cent target, claiming its current spend was enough.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump also said Britain was facing its own migrant crisis, although one less visible than Ceuta\u2019s swarm of migrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully other countries like the UK \u2013 where you have your own problems \u2013 but it\u2019s not as visible as that,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, you don\u2019t have thousands of people just bum rushing your country. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ceuta\u2019s migrant swarm followed a ruling that migrants reaching Spain\u2019s exclave by sea could not be summarily returned to Morocco and Mr S\u00e1nchez\u2019s decision to grant legal status to around one million migrants.<\/p>\n

The Spanish Prime Minister, however, blamed human trafficking gangs and online disinformation for the migrant wave which rocked Europe as he absolved Morocco of any involvement.<\/p>\n

Just days ago, Mr S\u00e1nchez said Israel and Russia bore responsibility for spreading misleading news \u2013 both countries denied the claim.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, thousands of protesters in cities across Spain took to the streets and condemned the Spanish Government for its handling of the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators in the exclave chanted: \u201cCeuta is not for sale, Ceuta must be defended.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many protesters also demanded that Mr S\u00e1nchez resign as demonstrations took place in cities across Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s ruling Spanish Socialist Workers\u2019 Party finally apologised for the shocking flood of migrants to Ceuta last week as Defence Minister Margarita Robles faced the country\u2019s Parliament.<\/p>\n

The Spanish leader has also previously drawn the ire of the President over the refusal to allow US forces to use its bases.<\/p>\n

The Government insisted its military operations were done in \u201ccommitment to world peace, with our allies in NATO, the United Nations and the European Union\u201d.<\/p>\n

The same day Mr Trump tarred former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as \u201cnot Winston Churchill\u201d he ordered the US Treasury to \u201ccut off all dealings\u201d with Spain over its inaction in the Iran war.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump\u2019s remarks on defence spending come as the US hopes to increase burden-sharing \u2013 forcing Europe and Canada to be responsible for defending the continent.<\/p>\n

The Spanish leader is likely to insist his country be exempt from wider Nato spending targets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the legitimate right of every government to decide whether or not they are willing to make those sacrifices. As a sovereign ally, we choose not to,\u201d he wrote in a letter in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has told GB News Spain will be a \u201cruined country\u201d amid the Ceuta migrant crisis. Ceuta,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-81843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81843","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=81843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}