Travel pool note #9 - Trump on NATO and Iran, with Dutch PM

Trump said he wouldn’t take questions because he had a presser later and didn’t want to hold up the Dutch PM, but then he did.

Trump said ‘of course’ he would stand up for NATO Article. ‘Why would I be here?’

‘If i didn’t stand with it, why would I be here?’

Trump also pointed to the Israeli atomic commission statement that the WH had just forwarded, plus what he said was a report by Iranian authorities.

‘It was complete total destruction’.

He again criticised media reports on the intel, saying they were ‘very unfair to the pilots that risk their lives for our country, and then they get Fake News New York Times and CNN make up a phony story to get some hits.’

Earlier Trump praised the Dutch hosts and said he ‘stayed through every one of those speeches, every one’

On his royal breakfast: ‘I actually had breakfast today with a king and a queen who were beautiful, beautiful people. Central Casting.’

Danny Kemp

AFP White House correspondent

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