Trump tempers fury to end NATO summit on high note
President Donald Trump, foreground, Finland's President Alexander Stubb, left, French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, second right and Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, attend the NATO summit in Ankara, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)
U.S. President Donald Trump offered NATO allies an unexpected warm embrace as they wrapped up a key summit on July 8 after earlier lashing out at them over their response to his war on Iran.
"It was amazing, actually. The unity in that room was incredible, really a love, it was sort of pretty wild," Trump told reporters after the closed-door meeting of 32 leaders at the NATO summit in the Turkish capital Ankara.
"This was a tremendously successful summit."
