Daily Mail: Trump touches down in Belgium for NATO summit after warning on Twitter that he won't 'happily defend' EU allies that are stiffing the U.S. on trade
* President Trump repeatedly berated America's European allies for failing to meet their defense spending obligations to NATO
* European Council President Donald Tusk hit right back at him at an EU-NATO signing event: 'America does not have and will not have a better ally than Europe'
* Tusk said: 'America appreciate your allies. After all you don’t have that many'
* President Trump tweeted minutes later: NATO countries must pay MORE, the United States must pay LESS. Very Unfair!'
* He told reporters as he prepared to board Marine One that America has plenty of allies and put new pressure on NATO nations to increase their defense spending
* U.S. NATO ambassador said this week that the United States' European partners had not brought up trade in the context of security alliance
* 'Our diplomats are professional and they are staying on our NATO issues, where we are 100 percent allied,' Kay Bailey Hutchison said on Sunday
* Trump defied her and put his tariffs on the table for discussion at NATO's summit in Brussels, where he arrives on Tuesday evening, in tweets
* The appearance was gearing up to be a repeat performance of a confrontation at last month's G7 summit in Canada
Donald Trump says that he's not going to 'happily defend' America's allies in Europe while they stiff the U.S. on trade
'Just doesn't work!' he harped in his latest in a string of Tuesday gripes.
Trump launched the latest salvo in the dispute between the United States and Europe as he landed in Belgium for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's leader's summit.
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