Germany owes North Atlantic Treaty Organisation big sum, Trump insists

It came when a German reporter asked Trump why he was so scared of diversity in the media and why he kept making claims of fake news while at the same time repeating unsubstantiated allegations that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration.

He added: “During our meeting, I thanked Chancellor Merkel for the German government’s commitment to increase defence spending and work toward contributing at least 2 per cent of GDP”.

But in an awkward moment on live television while meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel – whose cell phone was once tapped by the National Security Agency – Trump quipped that he and the German leader had something in common.

United States President Donald Trump met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week and it was there that Trump ran into some huge questions from a certain German reporter, and the world is talking big time about it.

One of the larger issues between the U.S. and Germany right now is Trump’s plan to tax all BMW vehicles built in Mexico and imported to the United States 35 percent.

But both Republican and Democratic congressional leaders have said they do not believe Mr Trump was wiretapped.

Mr Trump refused to apologise for the accusation.

United Kingdom communications intelligence agency GCHQ rejected Mr Spicer’s allegations as “nonsense”.

It was part of the Trump Administration’s “America First” policy, which sees to put an extra tax on all imported goods.

“They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored”, read the statement, which was issued on condition that it be attributed to an anonymous spokesperson to protect the identity of agency staff.

Fox News, known for its conservative opinions, nonetheless quickly denied that it had any reporting to support Trump’s claim.

The allegation was cited by spokesman Sean Spicer at Thursday’s White House briefing. We’re a very powerful company – country.

The remarks come days after a federal court again struck down his executive order temporarily suspending the US refugee program and barring people from a handful of Muslim-majority countries. Australia, Canada and New Zealand are the other members.

The diplomat and White House official both spoke only on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

The President insisted he had a “great” meeting with the German Chancellor in a tweet on Saturday morning. When asked by a German reporter about Trump’s contrasting style compared with his American predecessors, Merkel observed, with nary a hint of irony, that “people are different”.

By Monday, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence expects to receive information promised by the Department of Justice to support Trump’s surveillance assertions. The department would not comment further on what information, if any, was provided.

“Why can’t we learn from Western Europe?” said Coulter on Friday night.

“We were trying to address the areas we disagree”, she said of their ideological opposition.