President Trump Presents Angela Merkel With 'Invoice' For $375 Billion
Wow. There are no words for this level of derpitude and pettiness.
I can't even with this. It's better to just let the Independent UK explain it:
Angela Merkel will reportedly ignore Donald Trump’s attempts to extricate £300bn from Germany for what he deems to be owed contributions to Nato.
The US President is said to have had an “invoice” printed out outlining the sum estimated by his aides as covering Germany’s unpaid contributions for defence.
Said to be presented during private talks in Washington, the move has been met with criticism from German and Nato officials.
$300 billion in UK pounds is roughly $375 billion US dollars. No one is talking who has seen the actual document, but the estimates reportedly come from a directive from Trump to aides to calculate the difference below the two percent of GDP that NATO asks members to contribute...plus interest.
So classy, this guy. He has countless lawsuits against him personally for failure to pay contractors, but he's got nothing better to do than piss off one of our most important allies by playing some internation combination of mobster and collection agent.