The former president released a statement repeating his false claims about NATO on Wednesday.
The statement came as Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy was wrapping an emotional address to Congress.
Trump has wrongly claimed that NATO is "delinquent" and member countries need to "pay up."
Former President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement full of false claims about NATO while praising himself for bolstering the alliance. The statement came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was wrapping up an emotional address to Congress in which he called on the US government to take stronger action to counter Russia's devastating war in Ukraine.
Most of Trump's new statement repeated previous false claims he's made about the NATO alliance, including that several member countries were "delinquent" and that he was the one who got them to "pay up" in exchange for the US's protection.
"Nobody knew things would happen so rapidly, but NATO was poor and now it is rich, and all of the Fake News commentators that said Trump was tearing down NATO should be ashamed of themselves for telling lies," Trump's statement said.
He went on to say that unlike previous US presidents, "I acted, and acted strongly. I said to them, 'if you don't pay up, no protection.' They all paid up, and paid up quickly."
Trump has repeatedly gotten basic facts about NATO wrong or wrongly claimed the alliance was "obsolete," and later corrected himself because he did not know "much about NATO."
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