Reporter: You suggested that the only reason you came to the summit was because it was held in Türkiye. Was this your last NATO summit?
Trump: No. I think they came a long way today. They made some concessions, and I think NATO came a long way today.
One of the things is, we shouldn't be paying the kind of money we paid.
No president should be having to pay the kind of money we pay. I did in my first term, but Biden immediately gave it back.
Again, we're really there for protecting them, not for protecting us. It ultimately was protection against the Soviet Union, now Russia, but it was against the Soviet Union.
Honestly, we're very far away. We have an ocean separating us.
The meeting today settled a lot of things. It was a very, very good meeting, and people understand that the United States has been treated very unfairly.