Trump Reveals Secret 'Love' Message From NATO Leaders, But Critics Aren't Buying It

The president's claim comes amid rising tensions between him and other world leaders.

President Donald Trump has claimed that world leaders routinely told him how much they love him ― and that they even address him as “sir” when they say it.

But his critics weren’t buying it.

Trump just wrapped up a tense NATO summit in Turkey, where he threatened Spain, floated a reduction in the number of American troops in Europe and once again demanded U.S. control over Greenland. This, after he has routinely and publicly attacked U.S. allies and, most recently, lobbed a series of bizarre personal insults at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Yet Trump claimed that behind the scenes, the other leaders just adored him.

“If you could’ve seen the respect and the love in the room,” he told reporters as the summit concluded. “And it’s love really for the country, for our country. I don’t want to say me because you’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s so conceited. He’s such a conceited person.’”

Then, Trump went and made it about himself anyway.

“But they do. They like the job I’m doing,” he said, adding that the other leaders said, “Sir, we love you.”

Trump did allow for ulterior motives behind the show of affection.

“These are grown people saying that. Isn’t that nice?” he said. “Maybe, I don’t know, maybe they’re trying to get to me.”

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