U.S. President Donald Trump accused the European Union of "freeloading," echoing reported comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a leaked chat about Yemen air strikes.
When asked by reporters if he agreed with what The Atlantic magazine quoted Hegseth as saying in a conversation on the app to which a journalist was accidentally added, Trump said, "Yes I think they've been freeloading."
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When asked by reporters if he agreed with what The Atlantic magazine quoted Hegseth as saying in a conversation on the app to which a journalist was accidentally added, Trump said, "Yes I think they've been freeloading."
#trump #vance #uspolitics #uspol #eu #yemen #leakedgroupchat #airstrikes
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00:00I think they've been freeloading. The European Union's been absolutely terrible to us on trade.
00:05Terrible. And as you know, NATO, I got them to pay hundreds of billions of dollars. They were way behind.