"We've put out all this money. And then when we might want help with little things, they say, 'No, we'd rather not help,'" Trump said at a press conference.
"That's a stupid thing to say, because we can say the same thing to them if we want to, and maybe we will."
Despite strained relations with the alliance, Trump will attend the NATO summit in the Turkish capital, Ankara, next month.
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