a speech to leave. ould obama would go make a speech and leave. they all went in e, wemad a speech and left. e pa and in the meantime, we reying paying for most of nato . so u they took advantage of us n trade. i got them. all i first of t allhe trade, i tradeb the trade. ee muings are mucn h different now, but it would have been reallychd much different. covid interruptive us , be much unfortunately, but it was goingn to be much different. we did a good job trade, but more importantly, we got them to pay hundreds of billions of dollars. and , you know, the money thatth we got, that money went to .thi this is why they have money right now.t now to for nato to fight russia. they have money.n t have they didn t have any money. they were going bust. eak up nato is going to break up now. as to whether or not it should break up, you know, let s not talk about that. but we were spending money on nato to protect europe and they were taking advantage t of us trade. when i wenont and did this w
a closed door meeting and you know about this bettereiosed-don anybody. and i said , you know, we aree c tiprotecting all of you people, but many of you people haven tta paid only eight nations, including us , were paid up. and we were paying far more than anybody else to protect europe. and they one person stood up. the prime minister of a country whose only the prime ministerte is the president of the tope cod people. they saioes d, is that mean thaf we re attacked by russia, used to be the soviet unionrussia wht ar was originally done, if we re attacked by russia, will you protect us ?? i said, are you paid up because you re not paid up? the answer is no. i will not protect you . and the money came pouring in t and all of that money came in. we we took in hundreds of billions of dollars. that money came in. man,secretary stoltenberg, the secretary general of nato , good man. he used to be, i don t know, abused anymore, but he useding o to be my biggest fan. he said it sbo somethin