{"id":218384,"date":"2025-06-27T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218384\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:40:11","slug":"trump-slams-terrible-spain-and-threatens-to-make-them-pay-double-over-nato-5-of-gdp-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218384\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams &#8216;terrible&#8217; Spain and threatens to &#8216;make them pay double&#8217; over NATO 5% of GDP snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Donald Trump lashed out against Spain over NATO contributions, after the Spanish government stood out as the only country against dedicating 5% of GDP to military spending by 2035, despite other countries following this new expenditure rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leader of NATO, Mark Rutte, asked all members to raise their spending to 5%. Pedro Sanchez and Rutte reached an agreement to allow Spain\u2019s exemption from this requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had a strong response to begin with on Tuesday following the first report of this happening: \u201cThere\u2019s a problem with Spain. Spain is not agreeing, which is very unfair to the rest of them, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/2025\/06\/23\/watch-calls-in-spain-to-leave-criminal-alliance-nato-and-cut-military-ties-with-the-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: Calls in Spain to leave \u2018criminal alliance\u2019 NATO and cut military ties with the USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Truth Social he then said that \u201cSpain threatens to derail the NATO summit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, at a press conference, Trump added that \u201cIt\u2019s terrible what Spain has done (\u2026) We\u2019re negotiating a trade deal and I will make them pay twice as much. I\u2019m serious about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spain has so far found little support: only Belgium and Slovakia have explicitly sided with it, while rejecting the 5 figure. <\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni also made sardonic remarks towards Pedro Sanchez, saying Italy and Spain have both agreed to pay the same figure in an ironic tone.<\/p>\n<p>Rafa Rubio, an economist, said in conversation with La Noche en 24 that Spain would not suffer as much from Trump\u2019s threats of a trade deal that will harm Spain, given that Spain does not export as much to the US as other countries. Cooking oil is its main export at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Following the summit, Sanchez said that \u201cWe have reached an agreement which is faithful to the spirit of multilateralism and which satisfies us all\u201d, having previously sent a public letter to Rutte calling the target \u201cunreasonable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theolivepress.es\/spain-news\/2025\/06\/19\/spain-officially-rejects-natos-demand-of-spending-5-gdp-on-defence-to-protect-welfare-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain officially rejects NATO\u2019s demand of spending 5% GDP on defence \u2018to protect welfare state\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click here to read more <a href=\"\"> News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump lashed out against Spain over NATO contributions, after the Spanish government stood out as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,18104,8626,104,18106],"class_list":{"0":"post-218384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-news-spain","11":"tag-newspaper","12":"tag-spain","13":"tag-the-olive-press"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114754909503759082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}