{"id":1829,"date":"2026-07-08T18:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:54:52","slug":"trump-says-he-doesnt-want-anything-to-do-with-spain-cut-off-all-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he doesn&#8217;t want anything to do with Spain: &#8216;Cut off all trade&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> has slammed Spain for not contributing enough to NATO, as the defense alliance battles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/08\/nato-trump-rutte-russia-iran-greenland-ukraine.html\">mounting friction among allies.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. They don&#8217;t participate. They don&#8217;t pay. I don&#8217;t want anything to do with Spain. Cut off all trade with Spain, please, including visits,&#8221; he said at a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t even talk to them. They&#8217;re hopeless, bad people,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;There are a couple of others, but in particular Spain,&#8221; he added, referring to other NATO members that he says should be spending more on military capabilities. <\/p>\n<p>It marks the latest development in Trump&#8217;s row with Spain over its defense spending. It is the only member of the military alliance to not have committed last year to spending 5% of its gross domestic product on defense by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>NATO leaders have gathered in the Turkish capital as the alliance faces a crucial test of its credibility and future viability, with new European defense spending targets under unprecedented scrutiny from the White House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>The Ankara summit comes one year after allies committed to more than double defense spending. Spain secured a carve-out agreement as the southern European country was the only member refusing to commit to the hiked targets. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/25\/trump-vows-to-make-spain-pay-for-avoiding-new-nato-spending-target.html\">threatened a tough trade deal for Spain<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0said it was &#8220;terrible&#8221; that Madrid wouldn&#8217;t commit\u00a0to the new targets.<\/p>\n<p>Spain spent 2.1% of its GDP on defense in 2025, up from 1.4% in 2021, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, but it is still lagging behind many European countries. <\/p>\n<p>Rutte cut in, as he sat next to Trump, telling the president: &#8220;You got Spain to pay 2%. They spent, they made a huge step in last year.&#8221; Rutte added that there were still &#8220;issues we have to solve&#8221; regarding Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish prime minister&#8217;s office said it saw Trump&#8217;s comments as business as usual. In remarks reported by Reuters, the prime minister&#8217;s office added that bilateral relations between the U.S. and Spain were beneficial to both countries in trade and defense. <\/p>\n<p>CNBC has reached out to the Spanish government for further comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Trump also repeated his critique of the defense alliance, saying he was &#8220;very unhappy with NATO,&#8221; even if Rutte was &#8220;a great leader.&#8221; The relationship between Trump and Rutte has made headlines over the past year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/26\/trump-and-ruttes-bromance-stole-the-spotlight-at-the-nato-summit.html\">Rutte called the president &#8220;daddy&#8221;<\/a> and has made real concerted efforts to keep the U.S. engaged. <\/p>\n<p>Intra-NATO tensions have also mounted after Trump expressed frustration over NATO allies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/13\/uk-us-blockade-on-iranian-ports-iran-war-nato-.html\">refusing<\/a>\u00a0to join America&#8217;s military action against Iran. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"ArticleBody-subtitle\"><a id=\"headline0\"\/>Market reaction<\/h2>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>The president also said on Wednesday that he considers the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/08\/trump-says-iran-ceasefire-is-over-after-latest-round-of-strikes.html\">ceasefire with Iran as &#8220;over,&#8221;<\/a> sparking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/07\/stock-market-today-live-updates.html\">sharp drop in equity markets worldwide.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Spanish bonds \u2014 which had already been selling off before the news conference \u2014 slid further after Trump&#8217;s comments, with the yield on Spain&#8217;s benchmark 10-year bond last seen trading almost 10 basis points higher at 3.5682%.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.IBEX\/\">IBEX 35<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> equity index also fell, and was last seen trading more than 2.8% lower. The broad pan-European <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/.STOXX\/\">Stoxx 600<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> index dropped 1.9% while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/08\/oil-prices-brent-wti-iran-us-hormuz.html\">oil prices spiked<\/a>, reacting to Trump&#8217;s comments on the Iran ceasefire being over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>The U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/06\/nato-trump-defense-spending-whitaker.html\">told CNBC earlier this week<\/a> that he saw current tensions around European governments&#8217; defense spending as &#8220;growing pains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see these as just the challenges that we&#8217;ve worked through before,&#8221; he said, highlighting uneven defense spending by European countries, including what he referred to as &#8220;laggards&#8221; that will have to commit to growing that number over the next decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108330743\">\n<div role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108330743\" class=\"PlaceHolder-wrapper\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000417846\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-videoEmbed\" id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-inlineThumbnailContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108330744-17833409021783340899-46992224446-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1783340901&amp;w=750&amp;h=422&amp;vtcrop=y\" alt=\"U.S. NATO Ambassador: NATO and our allies were asleep\"\/><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"\/><span\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><em>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Chloe Taylor contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has slammed Spain for not contributing enough to NATO, as the defense alliance battles mounting friction among allies. &#8220;Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. 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