Trump criticized the French president for commenting "extremely malicious" about NATO and Germany spending too little on defense before the summit of the alliance.

"That comment is stubborn and extremely malicious for basically 28 countries, including them," US President Donald Trump today said at a meeting with Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Ocean (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg in London, England, mentioned that French President Emmanuel Macron said the alliance "brain dead".

"Nobody needs NATO more than France," the White House boss said, adding that the country "is not doing well economically", amid Macron's efforts to push for more reforms.

Trump went on to complain that Europe is not paying enough for NATO's security missions, similar to the statements he made before the alliance summit in July 2018, and linked it. with Washington's commercial interests.

"It's not good to be taken advantage of in NATO, then used commercially. We can't let that happen," Trump mentioned transatlantic disputes on a variety of issues, from aerospace sector to Europe's "digital tax" on US technology firms.

Despite recent signals from Germany suggesting they are more willing to take action to meet the goal of spending 2% of national output on NATO's defense, Trump still accused Berlin and other countries that he believed Spending less money is "making a mistake".

Trump's "storm of criticism" with European allies is likely to exacerbate doubts about the future of NATO, the organization once hailed as the most successful military alliance in history.

President Macron said on November 7 that NATO was "brain dead" due to a lack of strategic cooperation among its members, saying that Europe could not continue to rely on the collective defenses of the alliance once. The US has "turned away".

The disagreement in NATO has also intensified with Turkey's purchase of Russia's S-400 long-range air defense system, its biggest rival to the alliance, and a favorable move for Moscow on the political chessboard. However, it is difficult for NATO to exclude Turkey from the alliance because it is an important "wall" on the southern flank of the bloc.