Lie April 27, 2019 · Rally · Foreign policy
“There's one country, we lose $5 billion. Yes, I won't say it. I don't want to embarrass anybody. The last thing I want to do is embarrass somebody. But they lose -- we spend $5 billion a year defending them, right? So I said to the generals, how much do we spend next day? Sir, we spent $5 billion. Very wealthy country. I said, 'How much do they pay?' 'Sir, they pay $500 million.' I said, you mean we lose $4.5 billion to defender them? And they're rich? So I called the country. Right? I called the country. So we lose $4.5 billion for the privilege of defending a country that's very tough on us on trade and various other things. Right. So I called I said, 'Listen, no good.' Now, they were in a state of shock, because they never got a call like this in 25 years. I said it's no good. We're losing $4.5 billion. It's no good. We can't do this anymore. This is crazy. And he got very upset, angry. This is not fair. I said, 'Of course, it's fair.' He said, 'Well, we'll give you $500 million more.' Because the budget, you see had already been set. There's only a month left. So you know, I said you know what? I want more. We argue, so they paid us more than $500 million for one phone call. It took me one call.”
- Said
- April 27, 2019
- Where
- Campaign rally
- Verdict
- Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
- Topic
- Foreign policy
- Repeated
- 14 times in the Post’s database
- Source
- Washington Post claims database (claim ID 10249)