- President Trump repeatedly berated America's European allies for failing to meet their defense spending obligations to NATO
- European Council President Donald Tusk hit right back at him at an EU-NATO signing event: 'America does not have and will not have a better ally than Europe'
- Tusk said: 'America appreciate your allies. After all you don’t have that many'
- President Trump tweeted minutes later: NATO countries must pay MORE, the United States must pay LESS. Very Unfair!'
- He told reporters as he prepared to board Marine One that America has plenty of allies and put new pressure on NATO nations to increase their defense spending
- U.S. NATO ambassador said this week that the United States' European partners had not brought up trade in the context of security alliance
- 'Our diplomats are professional and they are staying on our NATO issues, where we are 100 percent allied,' Kay Bailey Hutchison said on Sunday
- Trump defied her and put his tariffs on the table for discussion at NATO's summit in Brussels, where he arrives on Tuesday evening, in tweets
- The appearance was gearing up to be a repeat performance of a confrontation at last month's G7 summit in Canada
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