“He managed to do it with the Saudis and the Israelis.” But in Europe, he said, “he does take us for granted.”<br />In a statement at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, President Trump said<br />that members of the alliance must "finally contribute" their fair share to defense spending and that it was “not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States.”<br />Brian McKeon, a senior policy official in the Pentagon during the Obama administration,<br />said: “The in-your-face thing at the NATO headquarters was pretty undiplomatic.<br />Trump Ends Trip Where He Started: At Odds With Allies and Grilled on Russia -<br />By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MARK LANDLERMAY 27, 2017<br />TAORMINA, Sicily — President Trump declined to endorse the Paris climate accords on Saturday, ending his first foreign trip much as he began it: at odds with several of the nation’s allies<br />and under a cloud of questions back home about his ties to Russia.<br />“There’s a situation where it’s six — if you count the European Union, seven — against one.”<br />President Emmanuel Macron of France said he had told Mr. Trump it was “indispensable for the reputation of the United States and for the Americans themselves<br />that the Americans remain committed” to the climate agreement.<br />In a recent letter to Mr. Trump from 10 state attorneys general, West Virginia’s attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, wrote, “Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is an important<br />and necessary step toward reversing the harmful energy policies and unlawful overreach of the Obama era.”<br />On trade, Mr. Trump pushed his demand that any agreements negotiated by the United States must be fair.
