"In the middle of the line of questioning, Trump joked: NATO calls me daddy. He continued: I mean, I have a lot to say about it. Look, I raised, you know, GDP from 2 percent to 5%; the 2 % they weren't paying and the 5% they are paying. And they're paying it because when we send things over, NATO pays for it, and I assume they give it to Ukraine. But Europe is being destroyed, he said."
"The quip came during a wide-ranging sit-down with Politico journalist Dasha Burns and in the middle of a scathing take slamming European leaders as weak and destroying their countries with migration policies. Burns pressed Trump on whether he would get involved in European elections as a result of what he was seeing, to which the president said he was already involved in Europe but wants to run the U.S. In the middle of the line of questioning, Trump joked: NATO calls me daddy."
Donald Trump joked that NATO calls him "daddy" while crediting himself with forcing allies to ramp up defense spending. He claimed he raised contributions from 2 percent to 5 percent and asserted that allies are now paying and that NATO funds shipments he believes go to Ukraine. He criticized European leaders as weak and said migration policies are destroying their countries. Politico journalist Dasha Burns asked whether he would interfere in European elections; Trump said he was already involved in Europe but wants to run the United States. Dutch PM Mark Rutte previously praised Trump and awkwardly joked about "daddy" using strong words.
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