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Winning: Trump Doubles NATO Countries Paying Financial Obligations, Warns ‘Delinquent
Quote:Under President Donald Trump, the number of countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance meeting their treaty-imposed financial obligations has doubled. Additionally, NATO spending has increased $130 billion and is on track to be boosted to $400 billion by 2024. Meanwhile, as promised by President Trump, the United States’ hefty contribution to the alliance has dropped from 20% to 16%.

“In the [three] decades before my election, NATO spending declined by two-thirds, and only [three] other NATO members were meeting their financial obligations. Since I took office, the number of NATO allies fulfilling their obligations more than DOUBLED, and NATO spending increased by $130B!” the president boasted via Twitter, on Monday.

At a conference on Tuesday in London, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg praised Trump’s leadership with respect to the alliance’s progress.

“We are making real progress, most importantly on the burden sharing,” Secretary General Stoltenberg told reporters. “And your leadership on defense spending is having a real impact. Since 2016, Canada and European allies have added $130 billion more to the defense budgets, and this number will increase to 400 billion U.S. dollars by 2024.”

“This is unprecedented,” he continued. “This is making NATO stronger. And it shows that this alliance is adapting, responding when the world is changing.”

“Thank you for your leadership and your strong commitment to NATO,” Mr. Stoltenberg added.

President Trump has long been skeptical of the alliance, primarily because of the U.S.’s hefty contribution relative to other countries’ portions. During the conference, Trump heaped praise upon Mr. Stoltenberg and again highlighted the headway he’s made with the alliance.

“I think he’s doing a fantastic job,” Trump said of Stoltenberg. “I’m a big fan. His contract was extended; I was very happy about that. But you really are — you’re doing a fantastic job. We appreciate it.”

“I think the Secretary General will tell you that, through some work and some negotiation, we’ve increased the budget of countries other than the USA, because we’re paying far more than anybody else, and far more even as a percentage of GDP,” Trump continued. “But we’ve increased the numbers that other countries are paying, by $130 billion. It was going down for close to 20 years. If you look at a chart, it was like a roller coaster down, nothing up. And that was going on for a long time. You wouldn’t have had a NATO if you kept going that way.”

“And now we’ve really increased it incredibly well, and I’m happy to have helped. But the Secretary has been looking to do that for a long time. And, I can tell you, he’s very happy about it,” added Trump.

Despite the progress, President Trump is still pushing other countries to meet their obligatory financial standards.

“Some [countries] are way below 1%,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday, “and that’s unacceptable. And if something happens, we’re supposed to protect them. And it’s not really fair, and it never has been fair.”

Delinquent countries have to pay up, Trump added, noting that “if they don’t want to, I’ll have to do something with respect to trade. And with trade, I hold all the cards.”

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And the odds that these delinquent countries were dumping some of that money into the Climate Change Scam are about 100%.
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Sorry CF he doesn't get any credit for that - you know, orange man bad and all that stuff.
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That is really good news.
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Still not tired of wining.
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But, but, but......we were told by our pals on the left that Trump was destroying NATO. How can this be true?
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(12-05-2019 08:09 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  NATO Defense Funds Have Been Building for Years, but Trump Wants the Credit

So I’ll ask you; can you keep this up for five more years?
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I usually don’t like family presidential lineages but I do worry who can take the reigns when Trump leaves in five years. He is a very special kind of guy. There just aren’t many like him. He gets it done just as he said he would and no amount of bellyaching, beetching and moaning is going to stop him. He may end up the second best president in history.
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lol, they just can't help themselves. TDS runs deep.
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(12-05-2019 08:09 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  NATO Defense Funds Have Been Building for Years, but Trump Wants the Credit

i read the article. T-Rex appears to be telling the truth. Let me paraphrase the article for you ( Dems seem to like a good paraphrase ).

NATO members got spooked in 2014 and promised to increase their spending, but it actually fell in 2015 and 2016, until Trump came into the picture. Now it's much better, what he says is true, but we can't credit him because they NATO talked about it a couple of years before....

5 more years
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(12-05-2019 09:34 AM)Oman Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:09 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  NATO Defense Funds Have Been Building for Years, but Trump Wants the Credit

i read the article. T-Rex appears to be telling the truth. Let me paraphrase the article for you ( Dems seem to like a good paraphrase ).

NATO members got spooked in 2014 and promised to increase their spending, but it actually fell in 2015 and 2016, until Trump came into the picture. Now it's much better, what he says is true, but we can't credit him because they NATO talked about it a couple of years before....

5 more years

Aren't the mental gymnastics fascinating???
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(12-05-2019 08:24 AM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I usually don’t like family presidential lineages but I do worry who can take the reigns when Trump leaves in five years. He is a very special kind of guy. There just aren’t many like him. He gets it done just as he said he would and no amount of bellyaching, beetching and moaning is going to stop him. He may end up the second best president in history.

You shouldn't worry so much.

Trump has proven we can elect competent managers with reasonable beliefs to be President.

That's what all this coup business is about. The cat is out of the bag. People from outside D.C. can do this job and do it well.
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(12-05-2019 12:22 PM)Claw Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:24 AM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I usually don’t like family presidential lineages but I do worry who can take the reigns when Trump leaves in five years. He is a very special kind of guy. There just aren’t many like him. He gets it done just as he said he would and no amount of bellyaching, beetching and moaning is going to stop him. He may end up the second best president in history.

You shouldn't worry so much.

Trump has proven we can elect competent managers with reasonable beliefs to be President.

That's what all this coup business is about. The cat is out of the bag. People from outside D.C. can do this job and do it well.

Good God this cult is so much worse than with Obama. Wow! 04-jawdrop
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(12-05-2019 01:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 12:22 PM)Claw Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:24 AM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I usually don’t like family presidential lineages but I do worry who can take the reigns when Trump leaves in five years. He is a very special kind of guy. There just aren’t many like him. He gets it done just as he said he would and no amount of bellyaching, beetching and moaning is going to stop him. He may end up the second best president in history.

You shouldn't worry so much.

Trump has proven we can elect competent managers with reasonable beliefs to be President.

That's what all this coup business is about. The cat is out of the bag. People from outside D.C. can do this job and do it well.

Good God this cult is so much worse than with Obama. Wow! 04-jawdrop

03-hissyfit03-hissyfit03-hissyfit03-hissyfit03-hissyfit

3 years and counting.
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I guess Tom would know.. He was the President, Founder, and CEO of the Obama cult.
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(12-05-2019 09:44 AM)VA49er Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 09:34 AM)Oman Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:09 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  NATO Defense Funds Have Been Building for Years, but Trump Wants the Credit

i read the article. T-Rex appears to be telling the truth. Let me paraphrase the article for you ( Dems seem to like a good paraphrase ).

NATO members got spooked in 2014 and promised to increase their spending, but it actually fell in 2015 and 2016, until Trump came into the picture. Now it's much better, what he says is true, but we can't credit him because they NATO talked about it a couple of years before....

5 more years

Aren't the mental gymnastics fascinating???

Too bad they aren't an Olympic event. Tom would be a gold medalist.
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(12-05-2019 02:15 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 09:44 AM)VA49er Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 09:34 AM)Oman Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:09 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  NATO Defense Funds Have Been Building for Years, but Trump Wants the Credit

i read the article. T-Rex appears to be telling the truth. Let me paraphrase the article for you ( Dems seem to like a good paraphrase ).

NATO members got spooked in 2014 and promised to increase their spending, but it actually fell in 2015 and 2016, until Trump came into the picture. Now it's much better, what he says is true, but we can't credit him because they NATO talked about it a couple of years before....

5 more years

Aren't the mental gymnastics fascinating???

Too bad they aren't an Olympic event. Tom would be a gold medalist.

I can see Tom in the Olympics. No Flag, No National Anthem. Like the Russian OAR team in 2018 and possibly 2020. https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/50594971
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(12-05-2019 06:30 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 02:15 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 09:44 AM)VA49er Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 09:34 AM)Oman Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:09 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  NATO Defense Funds Have Been Building for Years, but Trump Wants the Credit

i read the article. T-Rex appears to be telling the truth. Let me paraphrase the article for you ( Dems seem to like a good paraphrase ).

NATO members got spooked in 2014 and promised to increase their spending, but it actually fell in 2015 and 2016, until Trump came into the picture. Now it's much better, what he says is true, but we can't credit him because they NATO talked about it a couple of years before....

5 more years

Aren't the mental gymnastics fascinating???

Too bad they aren't an Olympic event. Tom would be a gold medalist.

I can see Tom in the Olympics. No Flag, No National Anthem. Like the Russian OAR team in 2018 and possibly 2020. https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/50594971

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(12-05-2019 01:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 12:22 PM)Claw Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:24 AM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I usually don’t like family presidential lineages but I do worry who can take the reigns when Trump leaves in five years. He is a very special kind of guy. There just aren’t many like him. He gets it done just as he said he would and no amount of bellyaching, beetching and moaning is going to stop him. He may end up the second best president in history.

You shouldn't worry so much.

Trump has proven we can elect competent managers with reasonable beliefs to be President.

That's what all this coup business is about. The cat is out of the bag. People from outside D.C. can do this job and do it well.

Good God this cult is so much worse than with Obama. Wow! 04-jawdrop

I have not seen children involved yet Tom. I remember.07-coffee3
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(12-05-2019 08:45 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 01:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 12:22 PM)Claw Wrote:  
(12-05-2019 08:24 AM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  I usually don’t like family presidential lineages but I do worry who can take the reigns when Trump leaves in five years. He is a very special kind of guy. There just aren’t many like him. He gets it done just as he said he would and no amount of bellyaching, beetching and moaning is going to stop him. He may end up the second best president in history.

You shouldn't worry so much.

Trump has proven we can elect competent managers with reasonable beliefs to be President.

That's what all this coup business is about. The cat is out of the bag. People from outside D.C. can do this job and do it well.

Good God this cult is so much worse than with Obama. Wow! 04-jawdrop

I have not seen children involved yet Tom. I remember.07-coffee3

For those who do not remember:










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