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Trump repeats desire to have all NATO countries spend 5% of GDP on defense budget

23 January 2025 22:05 (UTC +04:00)

President Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his desire to have all NATO member countries spend 5% of their GDP on their defense budgets while speaking virtually at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, APA reports citing CNN.

“As we restore common sense in America, we’re moving quickly to bring back strength and peace and stability abroad,” Trump said while speaking from the White House on Thursday.

“I’m also going to ask all NATO nations to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP, which is what it should have been years ago,” he said.

“It was only at 2% and most nations didn’t pay until I came along,” the president added. “I insisted that they pay, and they did, because the United States was really paying the difference at that time.”