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The claim

“We paid for, in my opinion, 100% of NATO because they weren’t paying their bills.”

Rating

False

Reviewed by FactCheck.org ↗ ·

Original fact check ↗

Original review summary

The review says the United States was not paying for all of NATO. It explains that Trump conflated countries’ independently chosen military spending with NATO’s shared operational costs; the U.S. pays about 15% of NATO’s common-funded budgets.[S1]

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Sources and attribution

  1. [S1] FactCheck.org original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026