{"id":539188,"date":"2026-07-08T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539188\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:23:12","slug":"trump-tells-nato-summit-that-he-has-ordered-all-trade-with-spain-to-be-cut-off-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539188\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Nato summit that he has ordered all trade with Spain to be cut off \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\">Donald \u200cTrump<\/a> said on Wednesday at a Nato summit he had ordered his \u200ctreasury secretary Scott Bessent to cut off all trade with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/spain\/\">Spain<\/a>, calling Madrid a \u201cterrible \u200bpartner\u201d in the alliance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trump, speaking alongside Nato secretary general Mark Rutte at the start of the summit in Ankara, said he wanted no \u200bbusiness with Spain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration with Spain, which has not agreed to \u2060Nato\u2019s new defence spending target of 5 per cent of \u200cGDP. Spain has also refused to let the US use its airspace or bases on its territory \u2060for the Iran \u200bwar. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cSpain doesn\u2019t agree to anything, \u200band you shouldn\u2019t carry them,\u201d Trump told Rutte. \u201cI don\u2019t want \u200cto do any trade with \u200bthem, alright?\u201d he said, turning to Bessent, who replied: \u201cYes, sir.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cTake \u2060it immediately, Don\u2019t even \u2060talk to \u200bthem. They\u2019re hopeless. They\u2019re bad people,\u201d he added. \u201cThey make so much money with us, and we\u2019re going to see that they make a lot less. I want no business with them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The US has two important military bases in Spain: Naval Station Rota and Moron \u200cAir Base. An internal \u2060Pentagon email outlined options for the United States to punish Nato allies it believes failed to support \u200cUS operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance, \u200ba US official told Reuters in \u200bApril. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US president Donald \u200cTrump said on Wednesday at a Nato summit he had ordered his \u200ctreasury secretary Scott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[969,42,43,3026,2846,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-539188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato","tag-spain","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}