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Trump Cancels NATO Press Conference, Heads Back To DC After Being Mocked By Trudeau

Emily Zanotti
Trump Cancels NATO Press Conference, Heads Back To DC After Being Mocked By Trudeau
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President Donald Trump will head back to Washington, D.C., this afternoon after completing his remaining meetings at the NATO Summit in London rather than stay for another evening of mixers after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was captured on tape mocking him at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday night.

The NATO gathering has been acrimonious and Trudeau, as well as a handful of other world leaders, were left angry after Trump suggested that NATO allies begin making bigger financial contributions to the alliance’s military efforts rather than rely on the United States to underwrite the vast cost of NATO peacekeeping.

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