Trump pushes aside Montenegro leader _ who calls it natural

Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic, center right, after appearing to be pushed by Donald Trump, center, during a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit of heads of state and government in Brussels on Thursday, May 25, 2017.

Some fractures between the USA and its allies are visible on Mr. Trump’s final stop, in sharp contrast to the warm reception he got in the Mideast, reports CBS News’ Margaret Brennan.

The act was being widely denounced online.

Hinting at fairer share in defence spending by member-nations, Stoltenberg said: “We will take decisions to share more fairly the burden of our security”.

The rebuke was being criticized by opponents.

The differences are well-known: climate change, trade and migration threaten to throw a summit of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies off its consensus game, with U.S. President Donald Trump cast as the spoiler-in-chief.

Instead, he returned to a grievance about Europe’s drop in defense spending since the end of the Cold War and failed to publicly commit to NATO’s founding Article V rule which stipulates that an attack on one ally is an attack against all.

“There were signs, too, that Mr. Trump and the allies remain at odds over Russia, which is deeply unsettling given mounting questions about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election”.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump went to NATO headquarters in Brussels, where he had a series of awkward encounters and gave a speech that seemed to have the United States’ NATO allies either snickering or worrying.

Tension over USA support for Article 5 began during Trump’s campaign for president, when he repeatedly threatened to militarily support only members who meet the 2 percent spending benchmark.

European Commission President Juncker told reporters he and US President Donald Trump spent considerable time discussing worldwide trade during their meeting of some 90 minutes, also attended by European Council President Donald Tusk. “So I really think that the results of the summit are worse than we expected -not only was there no clear commitment to Article 5, there was a repetition of this -I would say over-the-top – suggestion that European allies owe huge amounts of money to the United States”.

Trump announced a review of “deeply troubling” U.S. intelligence leaks over the Manchester bombing, in which 22 people died, and warned that those responsible could face prosecution, the White House said.

“It (the Manchester bombing) was a barbaric and vicious attack upon our civilisation”.