Firm warning from Trump to NATO

Firm warning from Trump to NATO New US President Donald Trump has reiterated that the United States will leave the North Atlantic Alliance if the other NATO countries will not start contributing more. ‘If they pay their bills’ then the US will retain its role in NATO, Trump said in an exclusive interview with US broadcaster NBC. When the interviewer asked if he would leave the alliance if that does not happen, Trump replied in the affirmative. NATO members are supposed to spend 2 per cent of their GDP on defence, but many fail to meet that in reality, and that bothers Trump greatly. The United States alone accounts for 70 per cent of NATO's total budget, so Trump wants the other member states to contribute more.