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At this point I feel you have to assume that is exactly what he is doing.
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Trump handed Merkel 300bn bill for what germany "owed" Nato
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At this point I feel you have to assume that is exactly what he is doing.
Shadow Puppetry
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Fake bill! Sad!
The White House has denied reports that Donald Trump handed Angela Merkel a bill for hundreds of billions of pounds he believed Germany owed Nato.
On Sunday, claims emerged that the US President had presented the German Chancellor with an invoice for an undisclosed sum believed to be around £300bn.
The bill which was said to include how much German spending fell below the two per cent Nato target over the past 12 years, plus interest - was reportedly given to Ms Merkel during talks held in Washington earlier in March.
But White House press secretary Sean Spicer attempted to pour cold water on the rumour when questioned on Sunday.
"No, this is not true," he said. Michael Short, a White House spokesperson, also said the report was "false.
The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocation, the minister said.
Commenting on the reports, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, described Mr Trump as an international embarrassment.
The White House has denied reports that Donald Trump handed Angela Merkel a bill for hundreds of billions of pounds he believed Germany owed Nato.
On Sunday, claims emerged that the US President had presented the German Chancellor with an invoice for an undisclosed sum believed to be around £300bn.
The bill which was said to include how much German spending fell below the two per cent Nato target over the past 12 years, plus interest - was reportedly given to Ms Merkel during talks held in Washington earlier in March.
But White House press secretary Sean Spicer attempted to pour cold water on the rumour when questioned on Sunday.
"No, this is not true," he said. Michael Short, a White House spokesperson, also said the report was "false.
The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocation, the minister said.
Commenting on the reports, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, described Mr Trump as an international embarrassment.
Electric Eye
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Fake bill! Sad!
The White House has denied reports that Donald Trump handed Angela Merkel a bill for hundreds of billions of pounds he believed Germany owed Nato.
On Sunday, claims emerged that the US President had presented the German Chancellor with an invoice for an undisclosed sum believed to be around £300bn.
The bill which was said to include how much German spending fell below the two per cent Nato target over the past 12 years, plus interest - was reportedly given to Ms Merkel during talks held in Washington earlier in March.
But White House press secretary Sean Spicer attempted to pour cold water on the rumour when questioned on Sunday.
"No, this is not true," he said. Michael Short, a White House spokesperson, also said the report was "false.
The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocation, the minister said.
Commenting on the reports, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, described Mr Trump as an international embarrassment.
Just look back at Trumps demeanor during the meeting. It happened.
Fake bill! Sad!
The White House has denied reports that Donald Trump handed Angela Merkel a bill for hundreds of billions of pounds he believed Germany owed Nato.
On Sunday, claims emerged that the US President had presented the German Chancellor with an invoice for an undisclosed sum believed to be around £300bn.
The bill which was said to include how much German spending fell below the two per cent Nato target over the past 12 years, plus interest - was reportedly given to Ms Merkel during talks held in Washington earlier in March.
But White House press secretary Sean Spicer attempted to pour cold water on the rumour when questioned on Sunday.
"No, this is not true," he said. Michael Short, a White House spokesperson, also said the report was "false.
The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocation, the minister said.
Commenting on the reports, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, described Mr Trump as an international embarrassment.
Of course, the bill was in $ not £.
Muffin1611
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Spicey would tell us that Trump hasn't any ties with Russia even if Putin got a special office next to Trump.
Also, didn't German ministers already confirm that this happened? It perfectly ties in with Trumps tweet afterwards as well.
Also, didn't German ministers already confirm that this happened? It perfectly ties in with Trumps tweet afterwards as well.
plagiarize
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Remember that time Trump tried to get something out of a foreign leader and he succeeded?
I don't either.
I don't either.
http://www.politico.eu/article/germany-didnt-receive-nato-invoice-from-trump-government/
https://twitter.com/RegSprecher/status/846310165318193152A spokesman for the German government on Monday denied media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump handed a multibillion-euro invoice to Chancellor Angela Merkel when they met in Washington earlier this month.
Reports that President Trump had presented the federal chancellor with a kind of bill with a concrete billion sum are not true, spokesman Steffen Seibert said at a press conference.
RegSprecher
@kaffeebeimir: Die Berichte über eine solche Rechnung treffen nicht zu. Es gibt kein Schuldenkonto bei der @NATO.
John Kowalski
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Can't wait for Steam sales huh
https://twitter.com/natosource/status/846812786185441280US official confirmed to me that #Trump gave #Merkel bill for what #Germany owes NATO. Also confirmed in @nytimes https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/the-offender-of-the-free-world.html
Love how the german press secretary dodges the question and answers something that wasn't asked.
Read that NYT piece earlier. Can only recommend it.
Wonder when Xi Jinping hands Trump a bill what America owes China.
This.
Trump thinks he's playing hard, but at every opportunity he just shows how pathetic his "skills" at deal-making are.
Muffin1611
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Makes you wonder what's actually going on behind the scenes. Perhaps the US will try to strong-arm Germany into paying the bill.
Pretty sure that's not how it works. There is no bill, only on Trumps self-printed paper.
Poltergust
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Of course he would source a tabloid and put it above the Pulitzer-prize winning organization.
WhateverItTakes
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Pretty sure that's not how it works. There is no bill, only on Trumps self-printed paper.
Yeah it was a shit 'negotiation' tactic and nothing more.
It's interesting even the German government is denying it if this US source says it happened. Probably trying to be classy. God I would have loved to see Merkel ether the fucker when he tried handing this over.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/28/politics/donald-trump-angela-merkel-call/index.htmlMonday's phone call was added to Trump's schedule after Merkel's Christian Democrats won a regional election in a tiny western state over the weekend. In an official readout of the phone conversation, the White House said Trump spoke with Merkel "to congratulate her on the outcome of the Saarland state election on March 26."
But the statement also added that the two leaders "used the occasion to reflect on the Chancellor's March 17 visit to the White House."
Trump employed a less aggressive tone and did not repeat his claim that Germany owed the US money, said US officials familiar with the call. He instead used the local elections as a way to flatter Merkel.
WEAK!
Also says this:
He did not, as a British newspaper reported over the weekend, present a physical invoice to Merkel for unpaid funds. But he did maintain, in what one official described as an aggressive tone, that Germany owed vast sums to NATO and the US.
I mean he got his trademarks in china and his development permits in Argentina.Remember that time Trump tried to get something out of a foreign leader and he succeeded?
I don't either.
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