00:00Mientras Donald Trump firmaba sus primeras órdenes ejecutivas en el despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca,
00:05los periodistas, de manera informal, le preguntan sobre el gasto militar en la OTAN de países como Francia o España.
00:12Y el presidente de Estados Unidos contesta esto.
00:45¿Es España un país BRICS, como asegura Trump?
00:48La respuesta es clara, no, no lo es.
00:51BRICS es un acrónimo formado con las iniciales de Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica,
00:56países emergentes en cuyo grupo no se engloba España.
01:00Es un grupo de potencias que representa el 45% de la población mundial, según el Banco Mundial,
01:07y que ha planteado una divisa global alternativa al dólar que Estados Unidos rechaza de plano.
01:13Las reacciones no se han hecho esperar.
01:15Evidentemente España no es un BRIC, no es un país emergente.
01:20Y desconozco si esa afirmación realizada por el presidente Trump es una confusión o no.
01:29Y me encargaré personalmente, así lo hará desde luego mi gobierno,
01:32de demostrar ante esta administración que no todos los españoles ni todos en España,
01:37desde luego las administraciones, no somos parte de los BRICS ni queremos serlo.
01:41Por otra parte, el gobierno ha contestado a la crítica de Donald Trump a España por su contribución a la
01:47OTAN.
01:47Creo que nadie debo olvidar que España es ese aliado fiable que lleva más de 40 años en el Tratado
01:54del Atlántico Norte
01:55y que la contribución a las misiones de paz es una de las más importantes que se están realizando.
02:00Quizás ha sido un error o una metedura de pata,
02:03pero lo que sí ha dejado claro el presidente de Estados Unidos es la amenaza arancelaria del 100% en
02:09su mandato.
02:17¿Vaites que Nato countries spend 5% de su dinero en defense spending?
02:20Bueno, I think they should do that.
02:22No creo que nos debería, pero creo que se debería.
02:25We've been spending, we've been supporting Nato so long,
02:28en muchas veces, I believe, paying almost 100% de cost.
02:32So, I don't think we should, pero I think that the Nato countries should, absolutamente.
02:36Y si sino que España decides not to?
02:39Bueno, Nato's going to have to deal with Spain.
02:41Spain's been a very low payer they were always a very low payer they were either
02:46good negotiators or they weren't doing the right thing I mean I think Spain
02:51has to pay what everybody else has to pay Spain has been notorious for low
02:55pay you know who else was a low payer just about the lowest a place called
03:00Canada because Canada said why should we pay when the United States will protect
03:05us free I'm tired of it I think they don't want it to happen again I was the one
03:19that said that what they should be paying as you know no I should do something and
03:24they're having a problem with Spain there was a problem with Spain Spain's not
03:30agree which is very unfair to the rest of them we should pay what everyone else
03:37you know they're in Europe we're not you know a lot of that money goes through
03:41rebuilding their bridges their roads so it can take heavy equipment and you know we
03:46don't have any roads in Europe we don't have any bridges in Europe so no I wouldn't
03:50be quite the same thing for us but we're with them
03:56depends on your definition there's numerous definitions of article
04:00five you know that right but I'm committed to being their friends you
04:05know I've become friends with many of those leaders
04:07and I'm committed to helping them
04:15a question on Spain are you satisfied with today oh I think Spain is terrible what
04:21they've done no I do they they're the only country that won't pay the full up they
04:26want to stay at 2% I think it's terrible and you know they're doing very well the
04:29economy is very well and that economy could be blown right out of the water with
04:34something bad happening no Spain is the only country that are you from Spain good
04:38congratulations you're the only country that is not paying I don't know what the
04:43problem is it's I think it's too bad so we'll make it up you know what we're
04:47gonna do when negotiating with Spain on a trade deal we're gonna make them pay
04:51twice as much and I'm actually serious about that we're gonna make Spain I like
04:55Spain I have so many people from Spain that it's a great place and they're great
04:59people but Spain is is the only country out of all of the countries that refuses to
05:10pay and you know so they want a little bit of a free ride but they have to pay it
05:14back to us on trade because I'm not gonna let
05:22I'm very unhappy with Spain they're the only country that didn't raise up their
05:27number to 5% every other country in NATO raised up to 5% and Spain is doing very
05:35well off our backs so I'm not happy with Spain Spain gets protection and they know
05:41you know look they're sort of in the semi-middle of it so they're gonna get
05:45protected automatically even if you don't want to protect him you're
05:48protecting him because of the way they're located and I think what Spain did
05:53is a very bad thing for NATO I think it's very unfair to NATO I think it's very
05:58disrespectful to NATO in fact I was thinking about giving them trade
06:03punishment through tariffs because of what they did and I may do that I think
06:10unbelievably disrespectful Spain the only one out of all the countries in NATO the
06:16only one that said that is Spain and I think that's I think they should be
06:21punished for that yes
06:28we're gonna work together very closely with Finland and with NATO we have a very
06:32good relationship as you know I requested that they pay 5% not 2% and most
06:38people thought that was not gonna happen and it happened virtually unanimously we
06:44had one laggard it was Spain Spain you have to call them and find why are they
06:49a laggard and they're doing well too you know the funny thing because of a lot of
06:53the things we've done they're doing fine they have no excuse not to do this but
06:58that's all right maybe you should throw them out of NATO frankly
07:10this is about NATO we're a very proud member of NATO we have a great relationship with the
07:15countries of NATO I think made much better by our visit a few months ago when they agreed to they
07:21agreed to 5% instead of 2% of GDP that was a big concession I think that was a
07:27concession that
07:27two years ago nobody would have said even a year ago even nine months ago before you were elected yeah
07:32they would have said that's not possible and the difference is they're paying 5% as
07:36opposed to not paying 2% there were a lot of them weren't there with the
07:40exception of Spain I think you're gonna have to talk to Spain Spain is not a team
07:45player so other than other than Spain everybody's a hundred percent and you
07:51could solve the Spain problem very easily I think
08:01I also secured commitments for virtually all NATO allies to increase their defense spending to
08:085% of GDP everybody but Spain I don't know what's happening with Spain why would they not do that
08:14they want a free ride I guess huh every country but Spain increased to 5% I don't know why
08:21we're
08:22gonna have to talk to Spain well some of the European nations have been helpful and some
08:32haven't and I'm you know very surprised Germany's been great he's been terrific others have been very
08:41good terrific I think that the head of NATO mark is fantastic okay mark Ruta I think he's fantastic but
08:50some of the European like Spain has been terrible in fact I told Scott to cut off
08:57all dealings with Spain Spain first of all it started when every every European
09:03nation at my request paid 5% which they should be doing and everybody was
09:08enthusiastic about it Germany everybody and Spain didn't do it and now Spain
09:14actually said that we can't use their bases and that's all we don't we could use their
09:19base if we want we could just fly in and use it nobody's gonna tell us not to use it
09:23but we don't
09:24have to but they were unfriendly and so I told him we don't want to Spain has absolutely nothing that
09:31we need other than great people they have great people but they don't have great leadership and as
09:36you know they were the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to 5% I
09:42don't think they
09:43wouldn't agree to go up to anything they wanted to keep it at 2% and they don't pay the
09:472% so we're
09:49going to cut off all trade with Spain we don't want anything to do with Spain we talked about Spain
09:54I
09:54could tomorrow stop or today even better stop everything having to do with Spain all business
10:00having to do with Spain have the right to stop it embargoes do anything I want with it and we
10:07may
10:07do that with Spain well let me just say he's been a friend of mine he's great guy great leader
10:13great
10:13Secretary General everybody respects him and I appreciate your nice words but you really have
10:18done a good job and I think if anybody else were in that position we wouldn't be meeting today to
10:26be
10:26honest with you because we were let down we didn't need help on this at all demolished them and literally
10:33the first week but it would have been nice if they would have said we'd like to help we didn't
10:39even
10:40need it but it would have been nice if they said that they didn't say but as Secretary General and
10:44he's the boss of the whole operation he was I believe if I would have called him and I didn't
10:50bother doing that because I was doing individual countries just to take the temperature and see how
10:55they were doing but I think if I would have called him he probably would have found a way to
10:59help if we
11:00needed I feel you know would have been a little bit different but I was disappointed I was
11:04disappointed with Italy I was disappointed with the UK he's now gone and you know he had a lot of
11:10problems but we were disappointed with the UK we're disappointed with Germany and France we're
11:16disappointed with most of Spain is a horror show Spain is terrible even from your standpoint I mean they
11:22don't want to pay anything they think they're in for a free ride Spain is not a not a good
11:27group not a
11:28good group at all but but I have great respect for this man and so we're going to be discussing
11:36what took place and we'll see what happens thank you
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