President Donald Trump barreled into a NATO leaders' meeting on Tuesday aiming insults at French President Emmanuel Macron, slamming '"unpatriotic" Democrats at home for holding an impeachment hearing while he is abroad and playing down the impact his domestic troubles are having on his standing on the global stage.
Trump began his first of two days at the NATO conference by harshly rebuking Macron, once arguably his closest ally among foreign leaders, for recently saying NATO was experiencing "brain death" as a result of diminished US leadership in the alliance under Trump.
Before meeting with Macron on the sidelines of the meeting, Trump laced into the French president for what he said were "very, very nasty" comments.
"I think that's insulting to a lot of different forces," Trump said.
"You just can't go around making statements like that about NATO. It's very disrespectful."
"They were very supportive actually. We didn't tell them what we were doing or where we were going. Turkey could not have been nicer, could not have been more supportive."
Trump criticised Democrats at the outset Tuesday, calling the impeachment push by his political rivals "unpatriotic" and "a bad thing for our country."
"I think it's a bad thing for our country."
Before the trip to London, Trump slammed "Do Nothing Democrats" for scheduling the hearing during the NATO meeting as "Not nice!"
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