U.S. Amb. to Germany: Trump’s Style Is Working as Europe Has Increased Its Defense Spending By $100 Billion

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GRENELL: “I would say that is true over the past several years. Certainly in the Bush administration I worked in and the Obama Administration, we asked to increase defense spending. We did it very nicely. That didn’t work. We have tried a new style where Donald Trump is being very direct. His Tweets are very direct. His requests of Germany are very direct. We have to look at the fact that the different style is working. Some people in Washington and the media likes to complain about it, but the facts are the different style is working. We have seen $100 billion increase in European spending on defense since Donald Trump started pushing, since 2016. That success you cannot argue with and just yesterday we had the defense minister of Germany commit to getting to the 2% by 2031. That is a bold step. It is not fast enough. The deadline has been 2024, but the Germans, the largest economy, are trying to do something like that and we will complement them.”