President Donald J. Trump

I went, looked at the books and I said, you guys, you haven't paid.

You gotta pay.

And I went back the next time and I said, you gotta pay if you don't pay.

And they said, well, if we don't pay, one of the presidents of one of the countries said, if we don't pay, will the United States defend us against Russia in case of a war?

I said, no, we won't even think.

You mean you're delinquent?

If you're delinquent, we are not gonna defend you if you're delinquent.

As soon as I said that, the money came in by the billions.

You know, I got $400 billion.

These guys were never paying.

They would have never paid.

Why should they pay if the United States?

Yeah.

Had I said, we will back you, they would not have paid.

Yeah.

And I took a lot of heat from the press for that because they said, President Trump wants to get out of NATO.

Look, NATO is very unfair to us because we spend far more than we should be spending

on NATO.

These other countries, which many of them are very rich, they don't spend.

It's a very unfair thing.