EU-DIGEST: EU-Trump Visit to Brussels: European Commission head Donald Tusk slaps back at Trump after his latest NATO swipe saying: 'America: appreciate your allies. After all you don’t have that many'

7/10/18

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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