The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website July 12, 2018:
As he left the White House on Tuesday, on his way to meetings with foreign leaders in Europe, President Trump made an odd assertion.
Those at his first stop, the member nations of NATO, have “not treated us fairly” because “we pay far too much and they pay far too little,” he said. As for Britain, where he headed on Thursday, “that’s a situation that’s been going on for a long time” and, following the resignations of senior officials on Monday, the country is “in somewhat turmoil.”
“And I have Putin,” Trump said, referring to a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week. “Frankly, Putin may be the easiest of them all. Who would think? Who would think?”