U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said it was "terrible" that Spain wouldn't commit to meeting NATO's 5% defense spending target by 2035. "We're negotiating with Spain on a trade deal and we're going to make them pay twice as much — and I'm actually serious about that,

President Trump laid into Spain during the NATO summit at The Hague on Wednesday, after it broke ranks with the other member states and declined to increase its military spending to 5 percent of its economic output over a decade.

Spain has rejected a NATO proposal to spend 5% of gross domestic product on defense needs that’s expected to be announced next week.