{"id":750775,"date":"2026-07-08T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:58:13","slug":"trump-orders-u-s-to-cut-all-trade-with-spain-as-feud-escalates-at-nato-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750775\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Orders U.S. to Cut All Trade With Spain as Feud Escalates at NATO Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">During Wednesday&#8217;s press conference, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, often referred to as the \u201cTrump whisperer,\u201d attempted to assure the President that Spain had made significant progress on defense spending.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cYou mentioned Spain, even you got Spain to pay 2%,\u201d Rutte <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_BrzW24jW8E?t=582\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThey made a huge step last year, there&#8217;s still issues we have to solve, but even Spain, I would say, they got to the 2%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">But Trump appeared unconvinced.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">In response to Trump&#8217;s trade threat, European Commission deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill <a href=\"https:\/\/audiovisual.ec.europa.eu\/en\/media\/video\/I-292060\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told<\/a> reporters \u201cwe expect the U.S. to honour its commitments&#8230; as we have honoured ours.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The Commission &#8220;will always ensure that the interests of the European Union and all our member States are fully protected,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The European Union&#8217;s side of a trade deal struck with \u200bthe U.S. last year <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/topics\/trade\/eu-us-trade-deal_en\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">came into effect <\/a>on July 1. The 27 nations negotiate trade as a bloc, which means that they respond to issues as a collective, also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Wednesday&#8217;s press conference, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, often referred to as the \u201cTrump whisperer,\u201d attempted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,3,7688,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-750775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}