Leaders of Britain, Canada, France and the Netherlands were spotted by cameras on mocking conversations for Trump's two-hour press conference ahead of the NATO conference.

The video was taken by the UK host's video team on the evening of December 3 at the reception on the sidelines of a NATO summit at Buckingham Palace and closed captioned subtitles on Twitter by Canadian television station CBC.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (second from left), British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right), French President Emmanuel Macron (second from right) and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at a reception on the sidelines of the meeting NATO summit in Buckingham Palace, England Photo: Video c?a CBC

In the video, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked French President Emmanuel Macron that "is that why he was late?", Referring to the two-hour question and answer session with Trump's media yesterday, ahead of the conference. NATO leadership.

"He was late because there was a press conference 40 minutes earlier," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau interrupted.

"His team gasped in amazement," Trudeau said in another scene in the video.

Macron also took part in the conversation, but he turned his back to the camera and his comments were not heard, while the British Prime Minister smiled.

None of these leaders mentioned Trump's name directly and they did not seem to recognize the recorded conversation.

Similar to last year's NATO meeting, Trump ignored the ritual and used the appearance with allied leaders to answer media questions.

In a meeting with Macron before the press conference, Trump was put on defense. Macron challenged the US president's vision of NATO and his handling of the military conflict involving Turkey. To Trump, it seemed like a rare conversation with another head of state for whom he was not the leader.

Trump plans to hold another press conference today, after 29 NATO leaders met in secret for three hours and made a final statement.