Nato leaders meet in Turkey for summit after Trump renews calls for US to take over Greenland – Europe live

Rutte says he understands Trump’s frustrations, but insists these are “isolated” cases, with many European countries helping out. He very softly pushes back on some specific countries that Trump named earlier, including Germany and France.

Trump comes back with pointed criticism of the UK which “would not let us use the island for two weeks,” and Italy being “very bad.”

But Rutte says that Trump “even got Spain to pay 2%.”

On Greenland , Rutte says the pair agreed at Davos to increase US military presence there, and he pledges to “make sure that deal is step by step being implemented.”

But this only triggers Trump to go again and say Greenland is “very important for the US, but it’s not important for Denmark” (that’s not true).

He then goes on a rant about the second world war and Nazis in Denmark, before coming back to say he is “very unhappy with Nato .”

Rutte comes back with over-the-top praise for Trump, which makes the US president go “that’s why I like him.”