29 May, 2017
The Times has been the frequent target of attacks by Trump, who has called the newspaper "fake news" and "failing".
Another Democrat, Rep. Jared Huffman of California, more subtly critiqued Trump's decorum at the summit, retweeting a video showing Trump pushing aside another leader.
Does NATO see eye-to-eye on what the threats are and the priorities are today?
Those issues "remained open", Tusk said, though an EU official said the sides agreed to set up an EU-US task force on trade.
Finishing off a long day, Trump arrived late Thursday night in Sicily for meetings Friday with leaders from the Group of 7 wealthy nations.
President Donald Trump speaks at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, May 25, 2017. Declining to do so is significant as Trump has threatened to remove the United States from the alliance, which was formed in 1949.
Out of NATO's 28 members, only the USA and four others meet the alliance's defense spending targets.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that "of course" the United States supports Article 5, though Trump still wants other nations to meet their obligation to spend 2 per cent of their gross domestic product on defence.
"Many of these nations owe massive amounts of money from past years", Trump said yesterday in Brussels.
Trump is expected to decide later if the United States will stay in the Paris Agreement on climate change and has been soft on Russia's aggression in Ukraine in past remarks.
"You have thousands and thousands of people pouring into our various countries and spreading throughout, and in many cases, we have no idea who they are", Trump said.
Nicholas Burns, a former long-time diplomat and ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from 2001-2005, now a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, said every USA president since Harry Truman had pledged support for Article V and that the United States would defend Europe. In the wake of this week's Manchester bombing, Belgium remains on security Level 3 - meaning that the threat of an extremist attack "is possible and likely".
"It was a good, cordial and friendly discussion", a spokesperson from the European Commission told CNBC on Thursday regarding Trump's meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk. US Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly argued that a visa-waiver program should be revised, saying that European Union citizens who have travelled to Syria and Iraq and become radicalized pose a security threat to the United States.
"I refuse to do that - but it is handsome", he said.
President Trump also reportedly ordered the Justice department to launch investigation into the leaks from the Manchester blasts.
