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White House transcripts of the President’s remarks, compiled by the Office of the Federal Register and published on govinfo.gov
“NATO” said in 131 of 565 transcripts, 494 times.
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Mar 27, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks at the FII PRIORITY Summit 13 times
…call it a military operation. We're very disappointed, by the way, with NATO . They didn't come to our aid. I didn't try too hard, actually… …you. When the war is finished, we will be there." This is NATO . And I've always said NATO is a paper tiger, and I always… …to thank the entire Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Been very helpful, unlike NATO . No, Saudi Arabia fought. Qatar fought. U.A.E. fought. Bahrain fought. And Kuwait…
Mar 26, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Cabinet Meeting 11 times
…thing: We're very disappointed. I'll say it publicly, we're very disappointed with NATO , because NATO has done absolutely nothing. And I've always said—25 years… …in politics and I understood politics. I said 25 years ago that NATO is a paper tiger. But, more importantly, that we'll come to their… …the United States. It's small potatoes. That's why I'm so disappointed in NATO , because this was a test for NATO. This was a test. "You…
Mar 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts DHS swearing-in ceremony 1 time
…please. Say it. Yea. I mean, a little bit, but more—more NATO . I think our Gulf allies have been pretty good, to be honest…
Mar 20, 2026 Other 4 times
…help in the sense of you need ships, you need volume. And NATO could help us, but they so far haven't had the courage to… …actually. Well, it deserves—he's right about asking that. And I think NATO has gone down a long way because they haven't—I mean, they… …if Lindsey Graham said that—and don't forget, he was the big NATO guy for a while, and now he's not. And a lot of…
Mar 19, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a Bilateral Meeting with Japan 2 times
…with Japan, they are really stepping up to the plate. Yes. Unlike NATO . Please. No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I—were, I certainly… …defending the Strait for everybody else. And then in the case of NATO , they don't want to help us defend the Strait, and they're the…
Mar 17, 2026 Meeting 11 times
…was watching, over the last couple of weeks, and all of our NATO allies were very much in favor of what we did. They thought… …was responsible for that was also killed yesterday. And all of the NATO allies agreed with us, and—but they don't want to—you know… …in a couple of days. But I was surprised to see that NATO , while they agree that it was a very important thing to do…
Mar 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…got them to pay from 2 percent to 5 percent of GDP—NATO . And I get along great with those countries in NATO. But I… …come out of this. We spend trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO to defend other countries. And I always said, "But if it ever…
Mar 16, 2026 Meeting 4 times
…don't protect us?" And I've always felt that was a weakness of NATO . We were going to protect them, but I always said, "When in… …oldest ally, and we spend a lot of money on, you know, NATO and all of these things to protect you." I mean, we're protecting… …should be involved enthusiastically. We've been protecting these countries for years with NATO , because NATO is us. You can ask Putin. Putin fears us. He…
Mar 15, 2026 Other 2 times
…great too. But remember, like as an example, in many cases, they're NATO countries. We're always there for NATO. We're helping them with Ukraine, as…
Mar 11, 2026 Other 1 time
…Spain. I don't know what Spain's doing. They've been very bad to NATO . They get protected. They don't want to pay their fair share. And…
Mar 3, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts a Bilateral Meeting with Germany 2 times
…Others have been very good. Terrific. I think that the head of NATO , Mark, is fantastic. Okay? Mark Rutte. I think he's fantastic. But some… …leadership. And, as you know, they were the only country that, in NATO , would not agree to go up to 5 percent. I don't think…
Mar 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Medal of Honor Ceremony 1 time
…ripping open a 60-foot-wide breach into a compound that housed NATO coalition forces. A lot of them. Ten Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests…
Feb 24, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: What will Trump say during the State of the Union? , What places will Trump mention in his State of the Union address? , Who will Trump mention during his State of the Union address? 3 times
…working today than ever before in the history of our country. And NATO countries, our friends and allies—they are; they're our friends, and they're… …percent, which they weren't paying. We were paying for almost all of NATO . Now they're paying 5, as opposed to not paying 2. And getting… …they're paid. And everything we send over to Ukraine is sent through NATO , and they pay us in full. They pay us totally in full…
Feb 19, 2026 Meeting 1 time
…have a great relationship with Europe. We have a great head of NATO . He's a fantastic man, and he's doing a great job—a really…
Feb 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump delivers remarks to Fort Bragg Military Families 5 times
…And we'll help other countries. We have a very good relationship with NATO , but NATO took advantage of us for many years. We were paying… …not spending any money we're—we are spending and sending weapons to NATO . And because of the increase from 2 percent to 5 percent of…
Feb 13, 2026 Other 3 times
…5 percent, and they're paying. We have a very good relationship with NATO . I think they'll be successful. And if they're not, it's going to… …think only—the only message is, we have a great relationship with NATO . We're a very powerful part of NATO. The people that are the…
Feb 2, 2026 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…countries of Europe are paying us for the weapons. So we have NATO paying. We send missiles over there. They pay us in full. Doesn't… …money. They're—we have the best military equipment. We're selling it to NATO . But I get along very well. But Europe has to be careful…
Jan 22, 2026 Other 2 times
…whatever we want, yes. We're all going to work together. And actually, NATO is going to be involved with us. We're going to be doing…
Jan 21, 2026 Meeting 2 times
…all of us. I think it's—you know, we're a member of NATO . He wants security for NATO and beyond. So, when he says that…
Jan 21, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum 25 times
…people of Greenland and the people of Denmark. Tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory… …too. But some grow. But this would not be a threat to NATO . This would greatly enhance the security of the entire alliance—the NATO… …we get so little in return. And I've been a critic of NATO for many years. And yet I've done more to help NATO than…
Jan 20, 2026 Press conference Kalshi: Trump joins the WH Press Briefing 18 times
…Terminated visas of Hamas sympathizers and deported pro-jihad foreign nationals. Got NATO members to agree to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP… …pay the 2 percent. And by the way, I did more for NATO than any other person, alive or dead. Nobody has done for NATO… …about that, but he said it a lot: I've done more for NATO than anybody. And I see all this stuff, but NATO has to…
Jan 19, 2026 Other 4 times
…We've had tremendous success, and we've—— You know, I've done more for NATO than anybody else. I don't think you'd have NATO right now. I… …and not pay. I've done more than any other American President for NATO by far, and we'll see how that goes. But Greenland is very… …not for me, but because—to guard against Russia. But you know, NATO has been warning Denmark for about 20 years now—longer than that…
Jan 16, 2026 Other 2 times
…health care at a much-reduced cost. Well, we're going to see. NATO has been dealing with us on Greenland. We need Greenland for national… …their nuclear capability, potentially. So yes, we're going to—we're talking to NATO . We're talking. I don't talk about that. Go ahead. Well, we're going…
Jan 14, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in a signing ceremony 1 time
…Europe. And I spoke with, as you know, Mark, the head of NATO , and he really wants to see something happen. It's very important. Very…
Jan 11, 2026 Other 11 times
…I think I've done a great job. I'm the one that saved NATO . I'm the one that got them to pay 5 points—5 percent… …didn't pay. Now they're paying 5 percent. I'm the one that saved NATO . You wouldn't have NATO if I weren't president. Well, maybe NATO would… …NATO would—it would save a lot of money. But I like NATO , you know. I just wonder whether or not if we needed NATO…
Jan 9, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Oil & Gas Executives 8 times
…I will say that, right now, because I was able to get NATO to up GDP from 2 percent to 5 percent, NATO's got a… …equipment. They're probably giving it to Ukraine. But we're selling them to NATO —military equipment. We're getting full price and all of that. But that's… …have to get their act together. Now, they've—they have a great NATO leader, and they've gone up to 5 percent from 2 percent GDP…
Jan 3, 2026 Press conference Kalshi: Trump holds press conference on Venezuela 1 time
…month. Thirty thousand. I want to stop that. You know, I got NATO to pay 5 percent instead of the 2 percent that they weren't…
Dec 28, 2025 Press conference 1 time
…Republic of Germany, Secretary General Mark Rutte, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—NATO , President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission. We spoke to…
Dec 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an announcement 5 times
…missiles, planes, all of the best military equipment. We sell it to NATO . We got NATO to go from 2 percent GDP to 5 percent… …it to the United States for weapons. So we sell weapons to NATO . We sell—full price. We sell weapons to NATO, and NATO takes…
Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 2 times
…with President Zelenskyy. Also, I spoke with the heads of Germany, Italy, NATO , Finland, France, United Kingdom, Poland, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. We had… …save a lot of lives. We—you know, we sell equipment to NATO . We don't spend any money, but we do want to see if…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 2 times
…even though I didn't spend money. We are now selling weapons to NATO . We're not selling it to Ukraine. We're selling weapons at full price…
Dec 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…money in Ukraine. We're selling equipment—basically, missiles and everything else to NATO , and NATO is paying us, and then they distribute it to who…
Dec 8, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds roundtable meeting 2 times
…to see stopped. We—as you know—— ——we now sell equipment to NATO at full price, and NATO takes that equipment and probably gives it…
Dec 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: President Trump makes an announcement 4 times
…know, we're not spending any money on the war. We're selling to NATO . We're not being ripped off like we were under Biden. Biden was… …doing. They're paying top dollar, full price for everything. It goes to NATO , and then NATO distributes it. NATO pays us. So we're not—it's…
Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 2 times
…the world stage, we're really respected. In fact, I went to a NATO and they were calling me the President of Europe. We're doing very… …it equipment. I don't give away anything. We sell the equipment to NATO . The European nations pay us for the equipment a hundred-percent price…
Nov 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends US - Saudi Investment Forum 1 time
…to behold. We officially designated the Kingdom yesterday as the major non-NATO ally. That's a big deal. That's actually a very big deal. It's…
Nov 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Arabia for dinner 1 time
…even greater heights by formally designating Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally, which is something that is very important to them. And I'm…
Nov 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump swears in the ambassador to India 3 times
…billion. We're not spending any money anymore. Now they pay us, through NATO . You know, I got NATO to go from 2 percent to 5… …Wow, this situation could lead to World War III." And I got NATO together. I got everybody together. But with all of that, I passed…
Nov 7, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister 3 times
…all friends of mine, every one. As you know, in the—in NATO , they voted to go from 2 percent to 5 percent. And, you… …along really well. They've done everything I've asked them to do with NATO , et cetera. The only thing they continue to do is buy oil… …money. In fact, we don't spend any money. We send it to NATO . They pay us for our missiles and for our military and everything…
Oct 30, 2025 Other 1 time
…making money in that case. But you know, we send weapons to NATO . They buy full price. They buy the weapons. They give them to…
Oct 22, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with NATO 7 times
…through the trials and tribulations of everything. Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO , highly respected, every country—almost every country in Europe. I think you… …to really add them up, we could really add them up. But NATO , basically, European and Canada and a lot of other nations, they've really… …his country into is a death trap. Please. Yes. This is about NATO . We're a very proud member of NATO. We have a great relationship…
Oct 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Diwali Celebration 2 times
…really affect us. We sell equipment to them. We sell equipment to NATO and NATO gives it to Ukraine, but we don't pay anything anymore…
Oct 20, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral with Prime Minister of Australia 1 time
…because now they pay us for the weapons that they get. The—NATO is paying us for the weapons, as you know. It doesn't affect…
Oct 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Zelensky 4 times
…and everything else that we're sending to the European Union—but to NATO . But it's very similar, if you look at the countries. I mean… …and what we wanted—and we made a very good deal with NATO too. You know, they pay for all of this. That's not what… …Spain has not come through. No, Spain has not been loyal to NATO . Spain has been—they're the only one. Everyone went up to, as…
Oct 14, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Bilateral meeting with President of Argentina 5 times
…didn't raise up their number to 5 percent. Every other country in NATO raised up to 5 percent, and Spain is doing very well off… …And I think what Spain did is a very bad thing for NATO . I think it's very unfair to NATO. It wouldn't matter if you… …what they did is not nice. I think it's very disrespectful to NATO . In fact, I was thinking about giving them trade punishment through tariffs…
Oct 14, 2025 Other 1 time
…that is. But Erdoğan has been great with me. You know, when NATO has a problem with Erdoğan, which they often do, they call me…
Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…want to thank President Erdo?an of Turkey. Great, great guy. When NATO has a problem with him, because he is difficult, they call me…
Oct 12, 2025 Other 5 times
…you know, we are not sending any weapons. We're sending them to NATO , and NATO is paying, which is a big difference between Biden and… …frankly. So we talked about weapons, and the weapons are sent to NATO , and NATO then sends us a check. They pay for them in… …know what's going to happen. Who knows what's going to happen? But NATO pays us 100 percent for the weapons, and then they send them…
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump's Bilateral meeting with President of Finland 7 times
…speaking to Spain. The only one that didn't do it—the only NATO country that didn't do it is Spain. And you'll figure what that's… …the pressure. We're stepping it up together. We're all stepping it up. NATO has been great. The leader of NATO, as you know—Mark—has… …are stepping it up. And we're selling a lot of weapons to NATO , and that's going, I guess, to Ukraine, for the most part. That's…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…you, now, as you know, I went over, and I met with NATO , and NATO raised from 2 to 5, which everyone said—5 percent… …money on that war. Not 10 cents. We sell our equipment to NATO . NATO pays us for the equipment, and they give it to Ukraine… …our defense. Much of that has really already taken place, but all NATO members have committed to the increase that I talked about. Think of…