US President Donald Trump, signing his first decrees as head of state, named Spain as a BRICS country.
In another comment during a press conference in the Oval Office, Trump said when asked about NATO spending that "Spain is very low."
And as foreign media recall, the country is one of three European NATO members that have not yet reached NATO's defense spending limit of 2% of GDP.
He then asked if Spain was a "BRICS" nation.
But this is not so, Euronews points out: the alliance's main members are in fact Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and it does not share any member states with NATO or the EU.
"If the BRICS countries want to do that, that's fine, but we will put at least a 100% tariff on the business they do with the United States," Trump said.
Recall that he has suggested that NATO should raise its threshold to 5%, a figure much higher than the current budgets of most members. /Telegrafi/
