Trump announced that due to Spain's refusal to open military bases to the U.S., the United States will stop all trade with Spain. He also said that the U.S. doesn't need permission at all - if they want, the U.S. military can directly fly over and use these bases without asking.
"But some European countries, such as Spain, have behaved very badly. I've already told Scott (Bessenart) to cut off all relations with Spain."
And now Spain actually says that we cannot use their bases. It doesn't matter - we didn't need to anyway.
We can directly fly over and use their bases whenever we want. No one can tell us what we can or cannot do.
But we don't need to do it. They have been unfriendly, so I said we don't want to do it.
To be honest, apart from their people being excellent - their people are really great - Spain has nothing to offer us.
So we will stop all trade with Spain. We don't want any connection with them."
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